The art of the English murder / Lucy Worsley.
Worsley, Lucy, author.
2014
HV6535.G4 W67 2014 (Mapit)
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Title The art of the English murder / Lucy Worsley.
Author Worsley, Lucy, author.
Uniform Title Very British murder
Very British murder (Television program)
Edition First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
ISBN 9781605986340 hardcover
1605986348 hardcover
Published New York ; London : Pegasus Crime, 2014.
Copyright ©2014
Language English
Description 312 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color), color facsimiles ; 24 cm
Call Number HV6535.G4 W67 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification 364.152/30942
Summary "Murder--a dark, shameful deed, the last resort of the desperate or a vile tool of the greedy. And a very strange obsession. But where did this fixation develop? And what does it tell us about ourselves? In The Art of the English Murder, Lucy Worsley explores this phenomenon in forensic detail, revisiting notorious crimes like the Ratcliff Highway Murders, which caused a nationwide panic in the early nineteenth century, and the case of Frederick and Maria Manning, the suburban couple who were hanged after killing Maria s lover and burying him under their kitchen floor. Our fascination with crimes like these became a form of national entertainment, inspiring novels and plays, prose and paintings, poetry and true-crime journalism. At a point during the birth of modern England, murder entered the popular psyche, and it's been a part of us ever since. The Art of the English Murder is a unique exploration of the art of crime--and a riveting investigation into the English criminal soul--by one of our finest historians"--Front jacket flap.
Note "From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock"--Dust jacket.
"As seen on the BBC as 'A very British murder"--Dust jacket.
Originally published as: A very British murder. London : BBC Books, 2013.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-306) and index.
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Part one. How to enjoy a murder. 1. A connoisseur in murder
2. The highway
3. The watchmen
4. The murder circuit
5. House of wax
6. True crime
7. Charles Dickens, crime writer
8. The ballad of Maria Marten
9. Stage fright
10. The Bermondsey Horror
Part two. Enter the detective. 11. Middle-class murders and medical gentlemen
12. The good wife
13. Detective fever
14. A new sensation
15. "It is worse than a crime, Violet ..."
16. Monsters and men
17. The adventure of the forensic scientist
18. Revelations of a lady detective
Part three. The golden age. 19. The women between the wars
20. The duchess of death
21. A life less ordinary
22. The great game
23. Snobbery with violence
24. The dangerous edge of things
Postscript: The decline of English murder.

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