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ISBN: 1250048532

ISBN13: 9781250048530

The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime

Name: 3.5 for the debunking of Vidocq and credit to Colquhoun
Item: The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
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Author: AKNM

by Judith Flanders

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"Wonderful... Flanders] shines in her readings of literary novels containing criminal and detective elements, such as Oliver Twist, Mary Barton and Tess of the D'Urbervilles, but can be sharp and very funny about the vagaries of melodramatic and sensational plotting." -Wall Street Journal

In this fascinating exploration of murder in the nineteenth century, Judith Flanders...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1250048532

ISBN13:9781250048530

Release Date:July 2014

Publisher:St. Martin's Griffin

Length:576 Pages

Weight:1.13 lbs.

Dimensions:1.5" x 5.4" x 8.5"

Related Subjects

The Criminal Justice System Victorian Society History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) True Crime

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3.5 for the debunking of Vidocq and credit to Colquhoun

Published by AKNM , 3 years ago

Victorian pop culture through the lens of violent crime. Your mileage will vary depending upon how you feel about the author's voice (acceptable), your attachment to trivia that often debunks popular ideas (it's a trove), and your stomach for grisly historical mayhem (varies, but there is really a lot of it in here, and even with my interest in true crime, they ran together a bit.)

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