Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City, (Hardcover)

from gothamajp

London fog had become a cliche of the city, yet in December 1952 a combination of weather, economics, politics, and pollution from poor quality coal turned the fog deadly and responsible for the deaths of 12,000 people. At the same time a quiet unassuming man named John Christie was killing women...

from cathyskye

Parts of Kate Winkler Dawson's Death in the Air reads like the best fiction. People trying to navigate the streets when visibility was down to one yard. Buses and automobiles not being able to move. People dying because they can't get to the hospital, and doctors are swamped with house calls and ...

from msf59

In the winter of 1952, the city of London was blanketed with a suffocating fog, for five, long, stifling days, killing hundreds of people, with a poisonous smog, generated by the use of cheap, dirty coal. How was I not aware of this horrifying story? Talk about burying history. This is very simil...

from zmagic69

There will undoubtably be comparisons of this book and "The Devil in the White City" but for me the biggest difference is this book reads more like a history book with a lot of facts, instead of a novel. This is the author's first book, but hopefully not her last. So the reason it is four stars a...

from msf59

In the winter of 1952, the city of London was blanketed with a suffocating fog, for five, long, stifling days, killing hundreds of people, with a poisonous smog, generated by the use of cheap, dirty coal. How was I not aware of this horrifying story? Talk about burying history. This is very simil...