The art of the English Murder : From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock
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Compact discs.
Unabridged.
Read by Anne Flosnik.
"Murder: a dark, shameful deed, the last resort of the desperate or a vile tool of the greedy--and a very strange, very English obsession. But where did this fixation develop? And what does it tell us about ourselves? In The Art of the English Murder, Lucy Worsley explores this phenomenon in forensic detail, revisiting notorious crimes like the Ratcliff Highway Murders, which caused a nationwide panic in the early nineteenth century, and the case of Frederick and Maria Manning, the suburban couple who were hanged after killing Maria's lover and burying him under their kitchen floor. Our fascination with crimes like these became a form of national entertainment, inspiring novels and plays, prose and paintings, poetry and true-crime journalism. The Art of the English Murder is a unique exploration of the art of crime--and a riveting investigation into the English criminal soul" -- from publisher's web site.
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Very British murder (Television program)
PUBLISHED
Old Saybrook, CT : Tantor Media, Inc., 2014.
Year Published: 2014
Description: 6 sound discs (7 hrs.) : digital, CD ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: Book on CD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781494534196
1494534193
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Flosnik, Anne,
Tantor Media.
SUBJECTS
Murder -- Great Britain -- Case studies.
Murder -- History. -- Great Britain
National characteristics, British.
Murder in mass media.
Murder in literature.
Murder in art.
Murder -- Great Britain -- History.
Crime in popular culture.
Crime in literature.