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Invention Of Murder: How The Victorians Revelled In Death And Detection And Created Modern Crime (2011)

by Judith Flanders(Favorite Author)

3.38 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

000724889X (ISBN13: 9780007248896)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

review 1: Though incredibly thoroughly researched and meticulously detailed - and incredibly helpful for the purposes of which I bought it - it's a bit of a slog to get through, particularly the sections where Flanders feels the need to labourously describe the plot of some penny-dreadful or piece of stagecraft that is utterly banal in its melodrama (although this is, of course, the point). Nonetheless a worthwhile if somewhat belaboured read.
review 2: Another case of an excellent and interesting idea not thoroughly executed. The author frequently rambles off subject and returns without warning several pages later. And for a book this size I expected there would be more in-depth discussion of the development of crime as celebrity. This book reads more like a very long b... moreullet list of notable murders committed in Victorian times with the still familiar feeling that the police force is useless and not to be trusted. less

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