@article{716991,
      recid = {716991},
      author = {Worsley, Lucy,},
      title = {The art of the English murder /},
      pages = {312 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :},
      note = {"From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha  Christie and Alfred Hitchcock"--Dust jacket.},
      abstract = {"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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/716991},
}