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A Very British Murder: The Story of a National Obsession

✍ Scribed by Worsley, Lucy

Book ID
109337911
Publisher
Ebury Publishing
Year
2013
Tongue
English
Weight
6 MB
Category
Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

This is the story of a national obsession.

Ever since the Ratcliffe Highway Murders caused a nation-wide panic in Regency England, the British have taken an almost ghoulish pleasure in 'a good murder'. This fascination helped create a whole new world of entertainment, inspiring novels, plays and films, puppet shows, paintings and true-crime journalism - as well as an army of fictional detectives who still enthrall us today. A Very British Murder is Lucy Worsley's captivating account of this curious national obsession. It is a tale of dark deeds and guilty pleasures, a riveting investigation into the British soul by one of our finest historians.

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