Unfortunately that’s the only thing she successfully stole from Erik Larsen. Her idea of weaving multiple historical threads together is to spend whole chapters on the Boston fire because *drum roll* both things happened in Boston at the same time.

“He wants you too Malachai”

Try Harold Schecter’s ‘Fiend’ instead. There’s not much more information on Pomeroy in Montillo’s book beyond what’s said in the interview. It was really disappointing.

I cannot recommend this book enough. Even though it looks like a trashy true crime book there’s so much more information on the case in here than in Montillo’s ‘Devil in the White City” wannabe. ‘Wilderness’ is a meandering slog.

It’s also a much better book. There’s more pages about Melville in Montillo’s than the murderer; it’s a mess.

Are you thinking of Mary Bell? Mary Kelly was Jack the Ripper’s last known victim.

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Teen discovers they are the chosen one, destined to save society and the world because Buzzfeed quiz told them so.

The illustrations take place in an alternate universe where syphilis is incurable and the Jim Henson Company is a prosthesis supplier.