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The Art of the English Murder (Audiobook)
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from electrascaife
A history of murder in the British imagination, essentially. Worsley looks at a handful of famous, actual murders in England and parallels those with an analysis of how murder mysteries, penny dreadfuls, and those beloved literary detectives developed in British literature. I enjoyed this one in ...
from GeoffHabiger
I love reading mysteries and detective stories, and do enjoy a good English murder from time-to-time, so I was intrigued when I came across this title at my library. I enjoyed the narration that Worsley gives for the history of the English murder story, starting out around the turn of the 19th Ce...
from LiterateHousewife
This is a fun book if you're a fan of British history or literature. I enjoyed it very much and it made for a nice companion while reading Sarah Water's Fingersmith in print. It also brought back memories of reading Murder As a Fine Art by David Morrell. Narrator Anne Flosnik was the perfect choi...
from gpangel
The Art of the English Murder: From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock by Lucy Worsley is a 2014 Pegasus Books publication. A must read for British Crime Enthusiasts- This non-fiction book outlines the history of British Crime- both real and fictional a...
from Kaethe
How did we come to a place where crime is entertainment? It's a really good question. Short answer: as the odds of certain risks (murder) go down, fascination with it goes up. Well, Worsley wrote a whole book explaining it better that that, and a very entertaining book it is, tracing the rise of ...
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