The art of the English murder /
Worsley, Lucy,
The art of the English murder / Lucy Worsley. - First Pegasus Books hardcover edition. - 312 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color facsimiles, portraits (some color) ; 24 cm
"As seen on the BBC as A very British murder"--Jacket. "From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock"--Jacket.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-306) and index.
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 ballads 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.
1605986348 9781605986340
Crime in literature.
Crime in popular culture.
Murder in art.
Murder in literature.
Murder in mass media.
Murder--Social aspects--History.--Great Britain
Murder--Great Britain--Case studies.
Murder--History.--Great Britain
National characteristics, British.
The art of the English murder / Lucy Worsley. - First Pegasus Books hardcover edition. - 312 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color facsimiles, portraits (some color) ; 24 cm
"As seen on the BBC as A very British murder"--Jacket. "From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock"--Jacket.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-306) and index.
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 ballads 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.
1605986348 9781605986340
Crime in literature.
Crime in popular culture.
Murder in art.
Murder in literature.
Murder in mass media.
Murder--Social aspects--History.--Great Britain
Murder--Great Britain--Case studies.
Murder--History.--Great Britain
National characteristics, British.