Murder by the Book: A Sensational Chapter in Victorian Crime by Claire Harman

Murder by the Book: A Sensational Chapter in Victorian Crime

Claire Harman

nonfiction history true crime informative mysterious slow-paced

180 pages | first published 2018

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A gripping investigation into the crime that scandalized literary London, from Dickens to Thackeray.On a spring morning in 1840, on an ultra-respectable Mayfair street, a household of servants awoke to discover that their unobtrusive master, Lord ...
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informative 90%
mysterious 61%
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