Murder by Candlelight: The Gruesome Crimes Behind Our Romance with the Macabre

by Michael Knox Beran

Book Overview

In the early nineteenth century, a series of murders took place in and around London which shocked the whole of England. The appalling nature of the crimes--a brutal slaying in the gambling netherworld, the slaughter of two entire households, and the first of the modern lust-murders--was magnified not only by the lurid atmosphere of an age in which candlelight gave way to gaslight, but also by the efforts of some of the keenest minds of the period...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1681772310
• ISBN13: 9781681772318
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Pegasus Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.6"