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 with Andy Secombe (Narrator)

7 hours, 47 minutes • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history true crime informative mysterious slow-paced

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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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Moods

informative 88%
mysterious 56%
dark 40%
challenging 16%
reflective 8%
tense 8%
sad 4%

Pace

slow 50%
medium 37%
fast 12%

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3.21

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