Book jacket image for Thunderstruck by Erik Larson

Crown

9781400080670

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Thunderstruck

Erik Larson’s Thunderstruck tracks the impact of the advent of radio communication on the aftermath of a shocking, sensational crime—Hawley Harvey Crippen’s murder of his wife in 1910.

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