A very British murder: the story of a national obsession
Worsley, Lucy
A very British murder: the story of a national obsession - BBC Books 2013 - 312 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
TV tie-in
Includes bibliographical references and index
Murder - a dark, shameful deed, the last resort of the desperate or a vile tool of the greedy. And a very strange, very British obsession. It's a subject that we have maintained a long and bloody fascination with - the more gruesome the details, the better. But where did this fixation develop? And what does it tell us about ourselves? In this book, Lucy Worsley explores this phenomenon in forensic detail.
9781849906340 1849906343
100=NOTNACO
Murder--Great Britain--Case studies
Murder--Social aspects--History--Great Britain
National characteristics, British
Murder in mass media
Murder in literature
Murder in art
Murder--History--Great Britain
364.1523 WOR
A very British murder: the story of a national obsession - BBC Books 2013 - 312 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
TV tie-in
Includes bibliographical references and index
Murder - a dark, shameful deed, the last resort of the desperate or a vile tool of the greedy. And a very strange, very British obsession. It's a subject that we have maintained a long and bloody fascination with - the more gruesome the details, the better. But where did this fixation develop? And what does it tell us about ourselves? In this book, Lucy Worsley explores this phenomenon in forensic detail.
9781849906340 1849906343
100=NOTNACO
Murder--Great Britain--Case studies
Murder--Social aspects--History--Great Britain
National characteristics, British
Murder in mass media
Murder in literature
Murder in art
Murder--History--Great Britain
364.1523 WOR