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The Art of the English Murder
Author | : Lucy Worsley |
Publsiher | : Pegasus Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : British |
ISBN | : 1605989096 |
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The history of the evolution of the traditional English murder, from Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to the cozy crimes of the Golden Age.
The Art of the English Murder From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock
Author | : Lucy Worsley |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2014-10-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781605987194 |
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The history of the evolution of the traditional English murder, from Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to the cozy crimes of the Golden Age. Murder—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? 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 the modern era, murder entered the popular psyche, and it’s been a part of us ever since. The Art of the English Murder is a unique exploration of the art of crime—and a riveting investigation into the English criminal soul by one of our finest historians.
A Very British Murder
Author | : Lucy Worsley |
Publsiher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2014-05-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781849906517 |
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This is the story of a national obsession. Ever since the Ratcliffe Highway Murders caused a nation-wide panic in Regency England, the British have taken an almost ghoulish pleasure in 'a good murder'. This fascination helped create a whole new world of entertainment, inspiring novels, plays and films, puppet shows, paintings and true-crime journalism - as well as an army of fictional detectives who still enthrall us today. A Very British Murder is Lucy Worsley's captivating account of this curious national obsession. It is a tale of dark deeds and guilty pleasures, a riveting investigation into the British soul by one of our finest historians.
Murder as a Fine Art
Author | : David Morrell |
Publsiher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2013-05-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781444755701 |
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An artist of death is stalking Victorian London, recreating earlier masterpieces of murder. Police suspicion falls on the notorious 'opium-eater' Thomas De Quincey, recently returned to the capital, who wrote in detail about the original crimes. Someone is using his essays as inspiration - and he must uncover the truth before the killer completes his work. In MURDER AS A FINE ART, London becomes a battleground between a literary star and a brilliant murderer - whose lives are linked by secrets long buried, but never forgotten.
On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts
Author | : Thomas de Quincey |
Publsiher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 39 |
Release | : 2022-05-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : EAN:8596547021377 |
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On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts is an essay by Thomas De Quincey. A fictional account of a report made to a gentleman's club regarding the visual appreciation of murder. For friends of satire!
An English Murder
Author | : Cyril Hare |
Publsiher | : Wildside Press LLC |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2023-07-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781667627311 |
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A group of guests gather in a large country house, owned by the dying Lord Warbeck, who wants what is left of his family around him to celebrate what he assumes will be his last Christmas. The guests are a motley bunch, including Sir Julius Warbeck, Chancellor of the Exchequer, the wife of one of his underlings, the fascist son of the present Lord Warbeck, and the Chancellor's bodyguard. Also present is foreign historian Dr Bottwink, and the traditional faithful butler. When the first murder occurs, the house is cut off from the rest of the world by a heavy snowfall, and it is left to Sir Julius's bodyguard to initiate a preliminary investigation before contact can be made with the local police force.
Mistress of the Art of Death
Author | : Ariana Franklin |
Publsiher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Cambridge (England) |
ISBN | : 9780857500366 |
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Set in medieval England, this chilling novel combines the best of modern forensic thrillers with the drama of historical fiction, as a mistress of the art of death--an early version of a medical examiner--arrives in Cambridge from Italy to investigate the suspicious deaths of four children.
The Simple Art of Murder
Author | : Raymond Chandler |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Detective and mystery stories, American |
ISBN | : 0345272641 |
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Prefaced by the famous "Atlantic Monthly" essay of the same name, in which he argues the virtues of the hard-boiled detective novel, this collection mostly drawn from stories he wrote for the pulps demonstrates Chandler's imaginative, entertaining facility with the form.