Murder in the 19th century was comparatively rare. But murder as sensation and entertainment became ubiquitous – transformed into novels, theatre, melodrama and opera, even into puppet shows and performing dog-acts. In The Invention of Murder Judith Flanders retells the gruesome stories of many different types of murder – both famous and obscure – while in Mr Briggs’s Hat Kate Colquhoun explores Britain’s first railway murder. This is where it all began…
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Supported by Harper Collins and Little, Brown