The Art of the English Murder: From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock by Lucy Worsley
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Overview: The history of the evolution of the traditional English murder, from Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to the cozy crimes of the Golden Age.
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.
Genre: Non-fiction | Biographies & Memoirs | True Crime
PART ONE: HOW TO ENJOY A MURDER
1. A Connoisseur in Murder
2. The Highway
3. The Watchmen
4. The Murder Circuit
5. House of Wax
6. True Crime
7. Charles Dickens, Crime Writer
8. The Ballad of Maria Marten
9. Stage Fright
10. The Bermondsey Horror
PART TWO: ENTER THE DETECTIVE
11. Middle-Class Murderers and Medical Gentlemen
12. The Good Wife
13. Detective Fever
14. A New Sensation
15. ‘It is worse than a crime, Violet …’
16. Monsters and Men
17. The Adventure of the Forensic Scientist
18. Revelations of a Lady Detective
PART THREE: THE GOLDEN AGE
19. The Women Between the Wars
20. The Duchess of Death
21. A Life Less Ordinary
22. The Great Game
23. Snobbery with Violence
24. The Dangerous Edge of Things
Postscript: ‘The Decline of English Murder’
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