Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City - Kate Winkler Dawson

A "fascinating, beautifully readable, compulsively readable book" (Douglas Preston) that tells the real-life story of the Great London Smog of 1952--an utterly preventable natural disaster that killed 12, 000 people--and the serial killer, John Reginald Christie, who used the smog and its aftermath as a veritable cloak for his crimes.