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A Very British Murder

by Lucy Worsley

Murder, great britainNational characteristics, britishMurderCase studiesHistoryBritish National characteristicsMurder in mass mediaMurder in literature

Murder - a dark, shameful deed, the last resort of the desperate or a vile tool of the greedy. And a very strange, very British obsession. This book explores this phenomenon in forensic detail, revisiting notorious crimes like the Ratcliff Highway Murders, which caused a nation-wide panic in the early nineteenth century.

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Book data: Open Library