Doctor Thomas Neill Cream: (Mystery at McGill)

David Fennario

Doctor Thomas Neill Cream: (Mystery at McGill)
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Talonbooks
Country
Canada
Published
3 January 1994
Pages
112
ISBN
9780889223325

Doctor Thomas Neill Cream: (Mystery at McGill)

David Fennario

In 1876, Jack the Ripper, otherwise known as Canadian Doctor Thomas Neill Cream, graduated with merit from McGill’s faculty of medicine. Cream was a backstreet abortionist and managed an exclusive brothel called The Elite Club. His notorious reputation eventually forced him to flee Canada for London. He was hanged in 1892 for the murder of four prostitutes. Doctor Thomas Neill Cream mixes fact and speculation with its cast of unlikely characters: khaki-covered union organizers-the good guys; five white-faced zombies representing such illustrious Founding Fathers of Confederation and distinguished members of the McGill fraternity as Sir Hugh Allan, Sir William Dawson, Sir William Osier and Lord Strathcona-the victors; and their young prostitutes-the victims. Intended as a cultural exorcism, playwright David Fennario charges with murder the capitalists who are now paraded through our history books as nation-builders. Past evil is paralleled in the present.

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