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020 _a1605986348
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020 _a9781605986340
_qhardcover
035 _a(OCoLC)870098467
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049 _aNFGA
092 _a364.1523
_bW931
100 1 _aWorsley, Lucy,
_eauthor.
_9176052
240 1 0 _aVery British murder
245 1 4 _aThe art of the English murder /
_cLucy Worsley.
250 _aFirst Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bPegasus Crim,
_c2014.
300 _a312 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
_billustrations (some color), color facsimiles, portraits (some color) ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
500 _a"As seen on the BBC as A very British murder"--Jacket.
500 _a"From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock"--Jacket.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 297-306) and index.
505 0 _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 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.
650 0 _aCrime in literature.
_9221981
650 0 _aCrime in popular culture.
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650 0 _aMurder in art.
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650 0 _aMurder in literature.
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650 0 _aMurder in mass media.
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650 0 _aMurder
_xSocial aspects
_zGreat Britain
_xHistory.
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650 0 _aMurder
_zGreat Britain
_vCase studies.
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650 0 _aMurder
_zGreat Britain
_xHistory.
_9259152
650 0 _aNational characteristics, British.
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730 0 _aVery British murder (Television program)
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942 _cBOOK
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