Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime - Judith Flanders - Grāmatas - St. Martin's Publishing Group - 9781250048530 - 2014. gada 15. jūlijs
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Judith Flanders
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?Wonderful? [Flanders] shines in her readings of literary novels containing criminal and detective elements, such as Oliver Twist, Mary Barton and Tess of the D?Urbervilles, but can be sharp and very funny about the vagaries of melodramatic and sensational plotting.? ?Wall Street Journal


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


Murder in Britain in the nineteenth century was rare. 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. 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. James and Patricia Cornwell.


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. 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.

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Izlaists 2014. gada 15. jūlijs
ISBN13 9781250048530
Izdevēji St. Martin's Publishing Group
Lapas 576
Izmēri 142 × 210 × 210 mm   ·   490 g
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