TY  - BOOK
AU  - Worsley,Lucy
TI  - The art of the English murder
SN  - 1605986348
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York
PB  - Pegasus Crim
KW  - Crime in literature
KW  - Crime in popular culture
KW  - Murder in art
KW  - Murder in literature
KW  - Murder in mass media
KW  - Murder
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - Case studies
KW  - National characteristics, British
N1  - "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
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