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Early in the morning of Mon, July 8, 1895, 13-year-old Robert Coombes and his 12-year-old sibling, Nattie, lay out from their small, yellow-brick terraced house in East London to view a cricket match at Lord's. Their daddy had opted to sea the previous Friday, the boys told their neighborhood friends, and their mother was browsing her family in Liverpool. Over the next 10 days, Robert and Nattie spent extravagantly, pawning their parents' belongings to fund vacations to the theater and the seaside. But as the sun defeat down on the Coombes house, a unusual smell commenced to emanate from the building. When the authorities were finally called to investigate, the breakthrough they made sent the press into a frenzy of horror and alarm, and Robert and Nattie were swept up in a legal trial that echoed the outrageous plots of the cent dreadful books that Robert treasured to read. In The Wicked Son, Kate Summerscale has uncovered a remarkable true history of murder and morality. It is not just a careful examination of a shocking Victorian circumstance but also a convincing accounts of its aftermath and of man's capacity to triumph over the past.
