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A very British murder : the story of a national obsession / Lucy Worsley.

Title
A very British murder : the story of a national obsession / Lucy Worsley.
Author
Worsley, Lucy
Publication
London : BBC Books, 2013.

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Description
312 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour); 24 cm
Summary
Murder - a dark, shameful deed, the last resort of the desperate or a vile tool of the greedy. And a very strange, very British obsession. This book explores this phenomenon in forensic detail, revisiting notorious crimes like the Ratcliff Highway Murders, which caused a nation-wide panic in the early nineteenth century.
Subject
  • Murder > Great Britain > Case studies
  • Murder > History. > Great Britain
  • National characteristics, British
  • Murder in mass media
  • Murder in literature
  • Murder in art
  • Murder > Great Britain > History
Genre/Form
  • Case studies
  • History
Note
  • TV tie-in.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
How to enjoy a murder -- Enter the detective -- The golden age.
ISBN
  • 9781849906340 (hbk.)
  • 1849906343 (hbk.)
OCLC
  • 852808480
  • SCSB-12303196
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library