The invention of murder : how the Victorians revelled in death and detection and created modern crime
Murder in the 19th century was rare. But murder as sensation and entertainment became ubiquitous--transformed into novels, into broadsides and ballads, into theatre and melodrama and opera--even into puppet shows and performing dog-acts. In this meticulously researched and compelling book, Judith Flanders--author of THE VICTORIAN HOUSE--retells the gruesome stories of many different types of murder--both famous and obscure. From the crimes (and m...
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