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The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime

By Judith Flanders
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If you’ve ever wondered where all the addictive murder mysteries that populate modern media came from, look no further. This poignant and often hilarious investigation of the Victorian obsession with murder examines the beginnings of the genre, as well actual murder cases that inspired it all.

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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 ...

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