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

Name: Invention of Murder How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
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ISBN: 9781250048530

ISBN-10: 1250048532

ISBN-13: 9781250048530

Edition: 2014

Authors: Judith Flanders

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In this exploration of murder in the nineteenth century, Judith Flanders explores some of the most gripping cases that fascinated the Victorians and gave rise to the first detective fictionMurder 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 the new police force developed in parallel, each imitating the other--the founders 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.…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 7/15/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 576
Size: 5.60" wide x 8.30" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English