The invention of murder : how the Victorians revelled in death and detection and created modern crime /

Flanders, Judith.

The invention of murder : how the Victorians revelled in death and detection and created modern crime / Judith Flanders. - First U.S. edition. - pages cm

Imagining murder -- Trial by newspaper -- Entertaining murder -- Policing murder -- Panic -- Middle-class poisoners -- Science, technology and the law -- Violence -- Modernity.

9781250024879 (hardcover) 1250024870 (hardcover)

2013010535


Murder--History--Great Britain--19th century.

HV6535.G4 / F43 2013

364.152/3094209034