John Reginald Halliday Christie

Standard Name: Christie, John Reginald Halliday

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Literary Setting Ruth Rendell
This book exhibits RR 's two great strengths: the hypnotic grasp of her stories, and the skill with which she creates not only inadequate and twisted characters but their whole environment. Her protagonist, Mix Cellini...
Textual Production Ruth Rendell
RR dedicated to P. D. James her thriller Thirteen Steps Down, about a man whose escalating obsession with the murdererJohn Reginald Christie leads him first to murder and then to becoming swallowed up...
Textual Production F. Tennyson Jesse
FTJ edited and introduced another in this series (which ran to about seventy titles) the following year, and two more in the thirties. In 1947 she edited a volume about the two men who had...

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9 March 1950: Timothy Evans, a van-driver in his early...

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9 March 1950

Timothy Evans , a van-driver in his early twenties, was hanged for the murders of his wife and baby daughter, who were more likely killed by the family's landlord, John Reginald Halliday Christie .
“Timonthy Evans and John Christie”. Stephen’s Study Room: British Military & Criminal History in the period 1900 to 1999.

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