With an irresistible cast of swindlers, forgers, and poisoners, the mad, the bad and the dangerous to know, The Invention of Murder is both a gripping tale of crime and punishment, and history at its most readable. The Invention of Murder : How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created. In this fascinating book, Judith Flanders retells the gruesome stories of many different types of murder-both famous and obscure-from the crimes (and myths) of Sweeney Todd and Jack the Ripper to the tragedies of the murdered Marr family in London's East End Burke and Hare and their bodysnatching business in Edinburgh and Greenacre, who transported his dismembered fiancée around town by omnibus. Shop Judith Flanders for pickup or delivery at Foxvalley Mall. Detective fiction and England's new police force developed in parallel, each imitating the other-the pioneers of Scotland Yard gave rise to Dickens's Inspector Bucket, the first fictional police detective, who in turn influenced Sherlock Holmes and, ultimately, even P.D. But murder as sensation and entertainment became ubiquitous, transformed into novels, into broadsides and ballads, into theatre and melodrama and opera-even into puppet shows and performing dog-acts. 9781250048530 Trade PaperbackTrue Crime / Flanders, JudithIn this fascinating exploration of murder in the nineteenth century, Judith Flanders examines some. Murder in Britain in the nineteenth century was rare. In this fascinating exploration of murder in the nineteenth century, Judith Flanders examines some of the most gripping cases that captivated the Victorians and gave rise to the first detective fiction
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