Judith Flanders

The Invention of Murder (eBook, ePUB)

How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780007352470
• Artikelnr.: 39960036

Autorenporträt

Judith Flanders is the author of the bestselling 'The Victorian House' (2003) and 'Consuming Passions' (2006), as well as the critically acclaimed 'A Circle of Sisters' (2001) - a biography of Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne-Jones, Agnes Poynder and Louisa Baldwin - which was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award. She is a frequent contributor to the 'Daily Telegraph', the 'Guardian', the 'Evening Standard', and the 'Times Literary Supplement'. She lives in London.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Imagining Murder
2 Trial by Newspaper
3 Entertaining Murder
4 Policing Murder
5 Panic
6 Middle-Class Poisoners
7 Science, Technology and the Law
8 Violence
9 Modernity