The art of the English murder
"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,...
| Main Author: | Worsley, Lucy (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York ; London :
Pegasus Crime,
2014.
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| Edition: | First Pegasus Books hardcover edition. |
| Series: |
Very British murder (Television program)
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Table of Contents:
- 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 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.