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Violence
Some
A murder and its aftermath; historical crime content
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Brief adult content; the Crippen marriage was unhappy
Substance Use
None
Social drinking in Edwardian setting
Emotional Intensity
Barely any
Themes of obsession, technology's impact, and the strange way history connects
What this book is about
Larson interweaves two true stories: Guglielmo Marconi's obsessive development of wireless telegraphy and Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen's 1910 murder of his wife — the first murder case solved with wireless telegraphy. Larson's nonfiction narrative is as propulsive as any thriller.
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Historical murder content
Nonfiction narrative
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