The art of the English murder / Lucy Worsley.
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- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1605986348
- 9781605986340
- Very British murder
- Very British murder (Television program)
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Murder--a dark, shameful deed, the last resort of the desperate or a vile tool of the greedy. And a very strange, very English 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 nation-wide 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 our national 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.
"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.