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Book

The art of the English murder

Call Number

  • 364.1523 W931 (CEN, OSH)

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Edition

First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.

Publication Information

New York : Pegasus Crime, 2014.

Physical Description

312 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color facsimiles, portraits (some color) ; 24 cm

Uniform Title

Very British murder

Notes

"From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock"--Jacket.

"As seen on the BBC as A very British murder"--Jacket.

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 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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