The art of the English murder
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Adult Nonfiction - South Wing Top Floor
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312 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color), color facsimiles ; 24 cm
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English

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"From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock"--Dust jacket.
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"As seen on the BBC as 'A very British murder"--Dust jacket.
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Originally published as: A very British murder. London : BBC Books, 2013.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-306) and index.
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"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.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Worsley, L. (2014). The art of the English murder (First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.). Pegasus Crime.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Worsley, Lucy. 2014. The Art of the English Murder. Pegasus Crime.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Worsley, Lucy. The Art of the English Murder Pegasus Crime, 2014.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Worsley, Lucy. The Art of the English Murder First Pegasus Books hardcover edition., Pegasus Crime, 2014.

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