Interwoven true stories of Marconi’s wireless invention and a notorious Edwardian murder, racing toward a suspenseful Atlantic chase.
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Interwoven true stories of Marconi’s wireless invention and a notorious Edwardian murder, racing toward a suspenseful Atlantic chase.
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A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world's "great hush." In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men--Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication--whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases of all time.Set in Edwardian London and on the stormy coasts of Cornwall, Cape Cod, and Nova Scotia, Thunderstruck evokes the dynamism of those years when...
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Sexual content
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Affair and tragic romance central to crime plot; no explicit sex
Violence & gore
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Graphic murder; post-mortem detail and mutilated body parts described
Profanity
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No evidence found in available sources
Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Magic & witchcraft
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Not present; historical nonfiction without fantasy elements
Occult / demonology
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Period references to séances and spiritualist atmosphere
Political content
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Edwardian politics and lead-up to World War I as backdrop
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Domestic murder of wife is central; unhappy, coercive marriage
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