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| | A Night To Dismember |
 | | This voyage alternates with flashbacks to Crippen's childhood, his ill-starred medical career and his disastrous marriage to Cora, a crude, vulgar, violent woman who aspires to be a famous music hall singer, and also with the story of Inspector Dew's discovery of Cora's remains and his pursuit of the fugitive lovers. |
 | | Crippen was raised in Michigan by a religious-fanatic mother who bitterly opposed his dream of being a doctor because, she insisted, if God makes people sick he wants them to stay sick. |
 | | Crippen for a time sets himself up as a dentist and in one scene almost kills a lad: "Milburn screamed throughout the whole procedure, blood-curdling screams, the screams of the demented and the hysterical; but Hawley hardly heard a note of them, so intent was he on his work." |
| www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/05/AR2006030500901_pf.html (801 words) |
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