The Invention of Murder
How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
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How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
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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 ballads, into theatre melodrama and opera. From the crimes of Sweeney Todd, Jack the Ripper and the tragedies of the murdered Marr family in London's East End.
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Started reading then skimmed the rest. It seems like a good reference but goes too far into the weeds to be readable for fun.
