Lucy Worsley tells the history of a national obsession with murder mystery.
Plot
Ever since the Ratcliffe Highway Murders caused a nation-wide panic in Regency England, the British have taken an almost ghoulish pleasure in ‘a good murder’. This fascination helped create a whole new world of entertainment, inspiring novels, plays and films, puppet shows, paintings and true-crime journalism – as well as an army of fictional detectives who still enthrall us today.
This is a tale of dark deeds and guilty pleasures. A riveting investigation into the British soul by a great historian.
I enjoyed it – Recommended
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