The Art of the English Murder

Name: The Art of the English Murder: From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock
ISBN: 9781605986340

From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock

Lucy Worsley

2014·312 pages·Nonfiction

Crime Historical Fiction

gritty true crime

This is the story of a national obsession. Ever since the Ratcliff Highway Murders caused a nation-wide panic in Regency England, the British have taken an almost ghoulish pleasure in 'a good murder'. This fascination helped create a whole new world of entertainment, inspiring novels, plays and films, puppet shows, paintings and true-crime journalism - as well as an army of fictional detectives who still enthral us today. It is a tale of dark deeds and guilty pleasures, a riveting investigation into the British soul by one of our finest historians.

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