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

224 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history true crime informative mysterious slow-paced

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Early on the morning of 6 May 1840, on an ultra-respectable Mayfair street, the elderly Lord William Russell was discovered in bed with his throat cut so deeply that the head was almost severed. When Lord William's assassin claimed to having been ...

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