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The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
The Invention of Murder How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
Author: Judith Flanders
'We are a trading community, a commercial people. Murder is doubtless a very shocking offence, nevertheless as what is done is not to be undone, let us make our money out of it.' Punch Murder in the 19th century was rare. But murder as sensation and entertainment became ubiquitous -- transformed into novels, into broadsides and ballads, into th...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9781250024879
ISBN-10: 1250024870
Publication Date: 7/23/2013
Pages: 576
Edition: First Edition
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Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Book Type: Hardcover
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