THE WICKED BOY: THE MYSTERY OF A VICTORIAN CHILD MURDERER
Book ID/图书代码： 11701215B83999
English Summary/英文概要： Early in the morning of Monday 8 July 1895, thirteen-year-old Robert Coombes and his twelve-year-old brother Nattie set out from their small, yellow brick terraced house in east London to watch a cricket match at Lord’s. Their father had gone to sea the previous Friday, leaving the boys and their mother at home for the summer.
Over the next ten days Robert and Nattie spent extravagantly, pawning family valuables to fund trips to the theatre and the seaside. During this time nobody saw or heard from their mother, though the boys told neighbours she was visiting relatives. As the sun beat down on the Coombes house, an awful smell began to emanate from the building.
When the police were finally called to investigate, what they found in one of the bedrooms sent the press into a frenzy of horror and alarm, and Robert and Nattie were swept up in a criminal trial that echoed the outrageous plots of the ’penny dreadful’ novels that Robert loved to read.
In The Wicked Boy, Kate Summerscale has uncovered a fascinating true story of murder and morality - it is not just a meticulous examination of a shocking Victorian case, but also a compelling account of its aftermath, and of man’s capacity to overcome the past.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1895年7月8日，一个周一的清晨，13岁的罗伯特•库姆比斯和12岁的弟弟纳蒂•库姆比斯从他们位于伦敦东部的小小的，黄色砖砌的家中出发，前往洛兹观看一场曲棍球赛。他们的父亲星期五时便已经出海，只留下兄弟两和他们的目前在家中度夏。
自那日起的十天时间里，罗伯特和纳蒂挥霍着家中的金钱，从剧院一路用到海滩。尽管兄弟两告诉领居们他们的母亲外出拜访亲戚，却从未有人在这段时间里见过或是听说过他们的母亲的任何消息。当夕阳的余晖从库姆比斯家最终散去，一股可怕的气味开始散发出来。
当最终警察们获得报案并开始调查，他们在一间房间里的发现让压力骤然上升到了刺骨的恐怖与警戒，罗伯特与纳蒂被带回进行犯罪审讯，而这一切恰恰与罗伯特最爱阅读的恐怖小说中的残暴行为如出一辙。
在《恶童》一书中，凯特•萨摩斯盖尔为我们缓缓展开了一个引人入胜的真实谋杀与道德故事---这不仅仅是对一个骇人听闻的维多利亚案件的深入调查，同时也是对其可怕结果的生动陈述，以及有关于人们走出过去的巨大力量。（DC）
Awards/获奖情况：这是一部十分优美的作品，全书文风简洁明了，同时字里行间充满了对读者的尊重之情，却又不乏无可挑剔的掌控力。在我看来，该书无疑是一部经典之作（约翰•勒•卡利）
萨摩斯盖尔所构建的无疑是一部伟大的作品。。。。。。我的书架上满是关于犯罪的书作，却没有哪一本比这本作品更叫我欢喜。（克雷格•布朗，《星期日邮报》）
精彩绝伦。（萨拉•沃特斯，《卫报》）
A beautiful piece, written with great lucidity and respect for the reader, and with immaculate restraint. A classic, to my mind, of the finest documentary writing (John Le Carre)
Summerscale has constructed nothing less than a masterpiece ... My shelves are stacked with books about crime, but none more satisfying than this (Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday)
Absolutely riveting (Sarah Waters, Guardian)
THE WICKED BOY: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer by Kate Summerscale has won the 2017 Edgar Award in the Best Fact Crime category! http://www.theedgars.com/nominees.html
About the Author/作者介绍： 凯特•萨摩斯盖尔，著有畅销书《威切尔先生的怀疑》，凭借该书，她获得了塞缪尔•约翰逊非小说类奖以及年度英国银河图书奖，入选理查德&朱迪图书俱乐部并被改编为了一部主要的ITV剧集。
凯特的第一部作品，同为畅销书的The Queen of Whale Cay曾荣获萨摩赛•毛姆奖，并入围怀特布雷德传记奖。其第三部作品《罗兵逊夫人的耻辱》则曾为星期日泰晤士报畅销书作品。凯特•萨摩斯盖尔于2010年入选皇家文学协会。作者现居伦敦。
Kate Summerscale is the author of the number one bestselling The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, the Galaxy British Book of the Year Award, a Richard & Judy Book Club pick and adapted into a major ITV drama. Her first book, the bestselling The Queen of Whale Cay, won a Somerset Maugham award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread biography award. Her third book, Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace, was a Sunday Times bestseller. Kate Summerscale was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2010. She lives in London.
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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：UK: Bloomsbury; US: Penguin Press; France: Bourgois; Italy: Einaudi; The Netherlands: Nieuw Amsterdam; Korea: KL; Portugal: Bertrand; Russia: AST.
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