text The invention of murder : how the Victorians revelled in death and detection and created modern crime
- Summary
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Shares accounts of high-profile murder cases that engaged Victorians in the nineteenth century, exploring how the rare crime of murder became a sensational cultural interest that gave rise to numerous theatrical and literary works.
- Contents
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Imagining murder -- Trial by newspaper -- Entertaining murder -- Policing murder -- Panic -- Middle-class poisoners -- Science, technology and the law -- Violence -- Modernity.
- Format
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- Description
- xi, 556 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Publisher
- St Martins Pr 2013
Library | Location | Status |
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Woodmere (Main Branch) | 364.1523 FLA in Adult Non-fiction | Reshelving |
Library | Location | Status |
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TADL-WOOD | 364.1523 FLA in Adult Non-fiction | Reshelving |