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Description edit
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... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Guglielmo Marconi: Creator of the Marconi Telegraph System that changed communication and created a base for worldwide communication as we know it today
- Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen: Mousy unassuming "doctor"
- Mrs. Cora Crippen: Crippen's wife
- Ethel Clara Le Neve: Crippen's Mistress
- Chief-Inspector Dew: Chief Inspector
- Henry George Kendall: Captian of the SS Montrose
- John Ambrose Fleming: British physicist and expert scientific consultant to the Marconi company
- William Preece: British postal official supportive of Marconi's early efforts to commercialize wireless systems in the U.K.
- Beatrice O'Brien: Marconi's first wife.
- George Kemp: Add a description of this character.
- Cora
- Mrs. Jackson
- Jane Vyvyan
- Poldhu: Not a character....physical location of a Marconi station in England
- Arthur Mitchell
- Paul Martinetti
- Melville Macnaghten
- Morse: It's a secret (code)!
- Mr. Maskelyne: British magician and wireless entrepreneur in the early 20th century; commercial competitor of Marconi
- Adolf Slaby
- Bruce Miller: Former boxer and possible lover of Belle, though we are left wondering
- Oliver Lodge: Physicist at University College at Liverpool. Believed in the supernatural and belonged to the Society of Psychical Research.
- Degna Marconi: Marconi's daughter (who penned a biography of her father)
- Kelvin
- Nina
- John Philo Robinson
- Jane Harrison
- Jameson Davis
- Prince of Wales
- Ethel Le Neve: Crippen's mistress
- J. M. Munyon
- John Nash
- Eusapia Palladino: Illiterate Italian woman described as a "physical" medium.
- Luigi Solari
- Clara Martinetti
- Martinettis
- Peter
- Frank C. Froest
- W. W. Bradfield
- Kaiser Wilhelm
- C. Crutchett
- Lady Inchiquin
- Queen Victoria
- Karl Reinisch
- Giuseppe Marconi
- Lil Hawthorne
- James Jackson
- Alfred Sargent
- Heinrich Hertz
- Mrs. Teresa Hunn
- Charles Richet
- Arthur Blok
- Karl Ferdinand Braun
- Dr. Horace Manders
- Melinda May
- Lady Metcalfe
- Percy Paget
- Mrs. May Pole
- Seymour Hicks
- Dr. Marshall
- Josephine Bowen Holman
- Victor Emmanuel III
- Mrs. Philo Crippen
- William Long
- Carl Taylor
- James Dewar
- Edward Glanville
- William Smith
- Mable Tubman
- James M. Barrie
- Marie Lloyd
- Mrs. Louise Smythson
- Mrs. Isabel Ginnette
- Myron Crippen
- Valentine Lecocq
- G. C. Crowley
- Henry Montague Hozier
- Lucia
- Signor Marconi
- Stanley Smith
- Andresse Skinner
- J. B. Priestley
- John Burroughs
- Lilah
- Gilbert Mervin Rylance
- John William Stonehouse
- Frederick Evans
- Dame Nellie Melba
- Dr. Bernard Spilsbury
- Dr. Fleming
- Louie Davis
- Dr. C. H. Stewart
- Henry David Thoreau
- Nicholas II
- P. R. Mullis
- James Reid
- Mr. Marconi
- Llewellyn Jones
- Cuthbert Hall
- Jack
- J. C. Graham
- Vanessa Stephen
- T. R. Caruso
- Mrs. Nash
- Nikola Tesla
- Mr. Frankel
- Frederic W. H. Myers
- John Nevil Maskelyne
- John Ellis
- Franceso Paresce
- Rayleigh
- Thomas Edison
- Annie Jameson
- Alexander Muirhead
- Nevil Maskelyne
- Harold Kirby
- Mrs. Van Raalte
- Michael Bernstein
- Mrs. Lena Lyons
- Gilbert Kapp
- Raymond Chandler
- Mrs. Piper
- Dr. Willcox
- Dr. Augustus Pepper
- Beatrice Webb
- Francis Barclay
- James Clerk Maxwell
- Richard Vyvyan
- Charles Hetherington
- William Curtis
- Charlotte Jane Bell
- John King
- Edward Donagh O'Brien
- Winston Churchill
- George FitzGerald
- George Parkin
- Richard D. Muir
- John Bottomley
- Virginia Woolf
- Mrs. Adeline Harrison
- Alfonso
- Dr. Jeffrey
- Ed Cook
- Raymond
- Charles Booth
- Michael Faraday
- Maud Burroughs
- Miss Holman
- St. John
- Hertzian
- Walter Dew
- Mr. Martinetti
- Brown
- Hugh G. J. Syntony
- Raymond Chandler
Setting & Locations edit
- London
- England
- Britain
- America
- New York
- Montrose
- Atlantic
- Germany
- Newfoundland
- Quebec
- New Scotland Yard
- Nova Scotia
- Canada
- Bloomsbury
- Italy
- Philadelphia
- Antwerp
- Piccadilly
- Rome
- France
- Paris
- Michigan
- Prince Of Wales
- Camden Road
- Europe
- United States
- Indianapolis
- Bologna
- Chelmsford
- Berlin
- Cornwall
- Brussels
- South Wellfleet
- Campania
- Chicago
- California
- South Foreland
- Brooklyn
- Los Angeles
First Sentence edit
On Wednesday, July 20, 1910, as a light fog drifted along the River Scheldt, Capt. Henry George Kendall prepared his ship, the SS Montrose, for what should have been the most routine of voyages, from Antwerp direct to Quebec City, Canada.
Table of Contents edit
A Note to Readers
The Mysterious Passengers
Part I
Ghosts and Gunfire
Part II
Betrayal
Part III
Secrets
Part IV
An Inspector Calls
Part V
The Finest Time
Part VI
Pursuit by Thunder
Epilogue
Into the Ether
Coda
Voyager
Notes and Sources
Archives and Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Illustration Credits
Index
Series & Lists edit
This book is in True Crime-historical. (community list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Erik Larson (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Crown Publishers
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2006
ISBN: 9781400080663
Page Count: 463
Publisher: Crown Publishers
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2006
ISBN: 9781400080663
Page Count: 463
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: HV6248.C75 L37 2006
- Dewey: 364.152309421
Subjects edit
- Books › Professional & Technical › Engineering › Telecommunications › Radio & Wireless
- Books › History › Europe › England › London
- Books › Nonfiction › True Accounts › Murder & Mayhem
- Books › History › World › 20th Century
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