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

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

Judith Flanders

569 pages • first pub 2011 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history true crime dark informative slow-paced
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWonderful... 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 va...

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