Murder by candlelight

the long version

"In the early nineteenth century, a series of murders took place in and around London which shocked the whole of England. The appalling nature of the crimes: a brutal slaying in the gambling netherworld, the slaughter of two entire households, and the first of the modern lust-murders was magnified not only by the lurid atmosphere of an age in which candlelight gave way to gaslight, but also by the efforts of some of the keenest minds of the period to uncover the gruesomest details of the killings"--