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

by Judith Flanders

Book Overview

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Wonderful... Flanders] shines in her readings of literary novels containing criminal and detective elements, such as Oliver Twist, Mary Barton and Tess of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0007248881
• ISBN13: 9780007248889
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 556 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.

Customer Reviews

3.5 for the debunking of Vidocq and credit to Colquhoun

Victorian pop culture through the lens of violent crime. Your mileage will vary depending upon how you feel about the author's voice (acceptable), your attachment to trivia that often debunks popular ideas (it's a trove), and your stomach for grisly historical mayhem (varies, but there is really a lot of it in here, and even with my interest in true crime, they ran together a bit.)