{"id":2615,"date":"2023-05-18T09:21:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T09:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itmgames.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2615"},"modified":"2023-04-24T11:44:16","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T11:44:16","slug":"a-very-british-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itmgames.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2615","title":{"rendered":"A Very British\u00a0Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Lucy Worsley tells the history of a national obsession with murder mystery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plot<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Ever since the Ratcliffe Highway Murders caused a nation-wide panic in Regency England, the British have taken an almost ghoulish pleasure in \u2018a good murder\u2019. This fascination helped create a whole new world of entertainment, inspiring novels, plays and films, puppet shows, paintings and true-crime journalism \u2013 as well as an army of fictional detectives who still enthrall us today. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a tale of dark deeds and guilty pleasures. A riveting investigation into the British soul by a great historian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I enjoyed it \u2013 Recommended<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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A very British murder<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A Very British Murder is available from<\/p>\n\n\n\n

City Adventurers <\/a>Solve The Murder<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

and from Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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