The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime by Judith Flanders Spirit Boards laughing chorus of Australian kookaburra

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The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime by Judith Flanders Spirit Boards laughing chorus of Australian kookaburraIn this fascinating exploration of murder in the nineteenth century, Judith Flanders examines some of the most gripping cases that captivated the Victorians and gave rise to the first detective fiction Murder in Britain in the nineteenth century was rare. But murder as sensation and entertainment became ubiquitous, transformed into novels, into broadsides and ballads, into theatre and melodrama and operaeven into puppet shows and performing dog acts.