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The Art of the English Murder|Lucy Worsley
The Art of the English Murder : From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock
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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?

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 the modern era, 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.

This item is Non-Returnable

  • ISBN-13: 9781605989099
  • ISBN-10: 1605989096
  • Publisher: Pegasus Books
  • Publish Date: March 2020
  • Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.79 pounds
  • Page Count: 336

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