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A very British murder: the curious story of how crime was turned into art

By Lucy , Worsley

Book information

Publisher
Ebury Publishing;BBC Books
ISBN
9781448142002, 9781849906340, 1448142008
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
6 MB (6206240 bytes)
Pages
312 pages) : illustration (some colour\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
British;History;Electronic books;Murder -- SocialCrime & mystery;Murder;Murder--Great Britain--Hist

Description

This is the story of a national obsession.Ever since the Ratcliffe Highway Murders caused a nation-wide panic in Regency England, the British have taken an almost ghoulish pleasure in 'a good murder'. This fascination helped create a whole new world of entertainment, inspiring novels, plays and films, puppet shows, paintings and true-crime journalism - as well as an army of fictional detectives who still enthrall us today. A Very British Murder is Lucy Worsley's captivating account of this curious national obsession. It is a tale of dark deeds and guilty pleasures, a riveting investigation into the British soul by one of our finest historians.

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