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Control # 1 hbl99069149
Control # Id 3 GCG
Date 5 20190911110856.0
Fixed Data 8 151223s2014 nyuacfh b 001 0deng d
LC Card 10    $a 2015452761
ISBN 20    $a1605986348 (hardcover)
Local Ctrl # 35    $a(OCoLC)ocn870098467
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Geog. Area 43    $ae-uk---
LC Call 50 00 $aHV6535.G4$bW67 2014
Dewey Class 82 04 $a364.152/30942$223
ME:Pers Name 100 $aWorsley, Lucy,$eauthor.
Title:Ufm 240 10 $aVery British murder
Title 245 14 $aThe art of the English murder /$cLucy Worsley.
Edition 250    $aFirst Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Imprint 260    $aNew York :$bPegasus Crime,$c2014.
Phys Descrpt 300    $a312 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations (some color), portraits (some color), color facsimiles ;$c24 cm
Tag 336 336    $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
Tag 337 337    $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
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Note:General 500    $a"From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock"--Dust jacket.
Note:General 500    $a"As seen on the BBC as A very British murder"--Dust jacket.
Note:General 500    $aOriginally published as: A very British murder. London : BBC Books, 2013.
Note:Bibliog 504    $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 297-306) and index.
Note:Content 505 $aA connoisseur in murder -- The highway -- The watchmen -- The murder circuit -- House of wax -- True crime -- Charles Dickens, crime writer -- The ballad of Maria Marten -- Stage fright -- The Bermondsey Horror -- Middle-class murders and medical gentlemen -- The good wife -- Detective fever -- A new sensation -- "It is worse than a crime, Violet..." -- Monsters and men -- The adventure of the forensic scientist -- Revelations of a lady detective -- The women between the wars -- The duchess of death -- A life less ordinary -- The great game -- Snobbery with violence -- The dangerous edge of things -- Postscript: The decline of English murder.
Abstract 520    $aMurder -- a dark, shameful deed, the last resort of the desperate or a vile tool of the greedy. And a very strange 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. At a point during the birth of modern England, murder entered the popular psyche, and it's been a part of us ever since.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aMurder$zGreat Britain$vCase studies.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aMurder$xSocial aspects$zGreat Britain$xHistory.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aNational characteristics, British.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aMurder in mass media.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aMurder in literature.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aMurder in art.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aMurder$zGreat Britain$xHistory.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aCrime in popular culture.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aCrime in literature.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aDetective and mystery stories$xHistory and criticism.
AE:Ufm Title 730 $aVery British murder (Television program)