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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Worsley, Lucy, author.     Subjects     Murder -- Great Britain -- Case studies.     Murder -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History.     National characteristics, British.     Murder in mass media.     Murder in literature.     Murder in art.     Murder -- Great Britain -- History.     Crime in popular culture.     Crime in literature.     Detective and mystery stories -- History and criticism.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Worsley, Lucy, author.       by title:      The art of the Engli...         MARC Display

The art of the English murder / Lucy Worsley. by Worsley, Lucy, author. New York : Pegasus Crime, 2014. Subjects Murder -- Great Britain -- Case studies.   Murder -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History.   National characteristics, British.   Murder in mass media.   Murder in literature.   Murder in art.   Murder -- Great Britain -- History.   Crime in popular culture.   Crime in literature.   Detective and mystery stories -- History and criticism. ISBN:  1605986348 (hardcover) 9781605986340 (hardcover) Description:  312 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color), color facsimiles ; 24 cm Edition:  First Pegasus Books hardcover edition. 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. Requests:  0 Summary:  "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, revisiting notorious crimes like the Ratcliff Highway Murders, which caused a nationwide panic in the early nineteenth century, and the case of Frederick and Maria Manning, the suburban couple who were hanged after killing Maria s lover and burying him under their kitchen floor. Our fascination with crimes like these became a form of national entertainment, inspiring novels and plays, prose and paintings, poetry and true-crime journalism. At a point during the birth of modern England, murder entered the popular psyche, and it's been a part of us ever since. The Art of the English Murder is a unique exploration of the art of crime--and a riveting investigation into the English criminal soul--by one of our finest historians"--Front jacket flap.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 364.1523 Wo Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kahuku P/S Library Adult Nonfiction 364.1523 Wo Transit Add Copy to MyList Kailua-Kona Public Library Adult Nonfiction 364.1523 Wo Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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