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000716991 1001_ $$aWorsley, Lucy,$$eauthor.
000716991 24010 $$aVery British murder
000716991 24514 $$aThe art of the English murder /$$cLucy Worsley.
000716991 250__ $$aFirst Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
000716991 264_1 $$aNew York ;$$aLondon :$$bPegasus Crime,$$c2014.
000716991 264_4 $$c©2014
000716991 300__ $$a312 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$$billustrations (some color), portraits (some color), color facsimiles ;$$c24 cm
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000716991 500__ $$a"From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock"--Dust jacket.
000716991 500__ $$a"As seen on the BBC as 'A very British murder"--Dust jacket.
000716991 500__ $$aOriginally published as: A very British murder. London : BBC Books, 2013.
000716991 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 297-306) and index.
000716991 5050_ $$aPart one. How to enjoy a murder. 1. A connoisseur in murder -- 2. The highway -- 3. The watchmen -- 4. The murder circuit -- 5. House of wax -- 6. True crime -- 7. Charles Dickens, crime writer -- 8. The ballad of Maria Marten -- 9. Stage fright -- 10. The Bermondsey Horror -- Part two. Enter the detective. 11. Middle-class murders and medical gentlemen -- 12. The good wife -- 13. Detective fever -- 14. A new sensation -- 15. "It is worse than a crime, Violet ..." -- 16. Monsters and men -- 17. The adventure of the forensic scientist -- 18. Revelations of a lady detective -- Part three. The golden age. 19. The women between the wars -- 20. The duchess of death -- 21. A life less ordinary -- 22. The great game -- 23. Snobbery with violence -- 24. The dangerous edge of things -- Postscript: The decline of English murder.
000716991 520__ $$a"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.
000716991 650_0 $$aMurder$$zGreat Britain$$vCase studies.
000716991 650_0 $$aMurder$$xSocial aspects$$zGreat Britain$$xHistory.
000716991 650_0 $$aNational characteristics, British.
000716991 650_0 $$aMurder in mass media.
000716991 650_0 $$aMurder in literature.
000716991 650_0 $$aMurder in art.
000716991 650_0 $$aMurder$$zGreat Britain$$xHistory.
000716991 650_0 $$aCrime in popular culture.
000716991 650_0 $$aCrime in literature.
000716991 650_0 $$aDetective and mystery stories$$xHistory and criticism.
000716991 7300_ $$aVery British murder (Television program)
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