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

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

Judith Flanders with Jennifer M. Dixon (Narrator)

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nonfiction history true crime challenging informative mysterious slow-paced

19 hours, 57 minutes | first published 2011

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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 D'Urbervilles, but can be sharp and very funny about the ...
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dark 83%
informative 83%
challenging 29%
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