The art of the English murder
Title:
The art of the English murder
Author:
Worsley, Lucy, author.
Personal Author:
Uniform Title:
Very British murder
Edition:
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Pegasus Crim, 2014.
Physical Description:
312 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color facsimiles, portraits (some color) ; 24 cm
General Note:
"From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock"--Jacket.
"As seen on the BBC as A very British murder"--Jacket.
Language:
English
Contents:
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 ballads of Maria Marten -- 9. Stage fright -- 10. The Bermondsey Horror -- Part two. Enter the detective. 11. Middle-class murders 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.
Subject Term:
Added Uniform Title:
Very British murder (Television program)
ISBN:
9781605986340
Format :
Book
