The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime

The Invention of Murder

How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime

By
Judith Flanders
Judith Flanders
2011 • 114 pages

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