A Passion for Poison

A Passion for Poison

by Carol Ann Lee
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 05/08/2021

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The incredible crimes of Britain's most notorious schoolboy serial killer, Graham Young, as told by the bestselling and much-respected true crime author of The Murders at White House Farm.


There are few criminal cases more astonishing yet less well known than that of Graham Young. A quintessentially British crime story set in the post-war London suburbs, it involves two sensational trials, murders both certain and probable, a clutch of forgiving relatives, and scores of surviving victims.


Fourteen in the summer of 1962, Graham stood in the Old Bailey dock charged with poisoning a schoolfriend and family members by adding antimony to their packed lunches, Sunday roast and morning cups of tea. Diagnosed with multiple personality disorders, Graham's trial resulted in his detainment at Broadmoor, where he was the youngest patient.


But it was on his release from Broadmoor that Graham caused the greatest harm. Finding employment in Hadlands, a photographic supplies firm, his role as junior storeman meant he was expected to make tea and coffee for his colleagues. And very soon, numerous members of staff began experiencing crippling stomach pains...


A psychologically astute insight into the mind of a complex and intriguing individual, A Passion for Poison is true crime at its best.


Praise for Carol Ann Lee

Somebody's Mother, Somebody's Daughter: Victims and Survivors of the Yorkshire Ripper

'My book of the year... the first time the stories of the women who came into the sights of notorious serial killer Peter Sutcliffe have been told, and it gives voice to their families... deeply poignant' - Lynda La Plante


One of Your Own: The Life & Death of Myra Hindley

'Scrupulously unsensational and as good a biography of Hindley as we'll get' - Sunday Times

ISBN:
9781789464320
9781789464320
Category:
True crime
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
05-08-2021
Language:
English
Publisher:
Bonnier Books UK
Carol Ann Lee

Born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, in 1969, Carol Ann Lee graduated from Manchester University. Three years later, her first book, Roses from the Earth: The Biography of Anne Frank was published to great acclaim, and has been published in fifteen countries to date.

She went on to write several more best-selling books, including biographies and fiction, returning to non-fiction in 2010 with One of Your Own: The Life and Death of Myra Hindley, A Fine Day for a Hanging (2012) and The Murders at White House Farm (2015).

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