![]() Throughout the book, Tawell is thoroughly unrepentant and completely devoid of charm. ![]() The government even pays to send his family to be with him! (Guess they showed him that crime doesn't pay!) As a younger man convicted of forgery, he is transported to Australia where he manages to make a bundle. An elderly Quaker named John Tawell is the only suspect. ![]() The rest of the book revolves around one fairly unspectacular murder case. The thrill of the chase is over within the first two chapters. (The two-needle telegraph contained no code for the letter 'q'.) On New Year's Day 1845, a young telegraph operator in Paddington Station received the following message:Ī murder has just been committed at Salt Hill and the suspected murderer was seen to take a first-class ticket for London by the train which left Slough at 7:42 p.m. I was expecting a Connections-type book about how the telegraph and perhaps other inventions not specifically designed for crime prevention ended up being used for EXACTLY that purpose. "Fans of Erik Larson’s true-crime thrillers will be pleased by this gripping account that presents a tipping point in the public acceptance of the telegraph: its use in 1845 to alert the authorities in London that a murder suspect had boarded a train headed there." ![]() I entered the giveaway, and I won.īoth the title of the book AND the contest's description led me to expect something different: ![]()
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