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Pages: 556
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The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-01-06 - Publisher: HarperCollins UK
“We are a trading community, a commercial people. Murder is doubtless a very shocking offence, nevertheless as what is done is not to be undone, let us make o
Language: en
Pages: 114
Pages: 114
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Murder in the 19th century was rare. But murder as a sensation and entertainment began and became ubiquitous, transformed into novels, into broadsides and into
Language: en
Pages: 288
Pages: 288
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-02-24 - Publisher: Minotaur Books
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Language: en
Pages: 404
Pages: 404
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-12-04 - Publisher: Penguin
On July 28, 1841, the body of Mary Rogers, a twenty-year-old cigar girl, was found floating in the Hudson-and New York's unregulated police force proved incapab