Burke, Hare, Jack the Ripper et al.

Judith Flanders: The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime. London: HarperPress 2011.

Verlagsanzeige: “Murder in the 19th century was rare. But murder as sensation and entertainment began and became ubiquitous – transformed into novels, into broadsides and ballads, into theatre and melodrama and opera – even into puppet shows and performing dog-acts. In this meticulously researched and compelling book, Judith Flanders – author of ‘The Victorian House’ – retells the gruesome stories of many different types of murder – both famous and obscure. From the crimes (and myths) of Sweeny Todd and Jack the Ripper, to the tragedies of the murdered Marr family in London’s East End, Burke and Hare and their bodysnatching business in Edinburgh, to Greenacre who transported his dismembered fiancée around town by omnibus”.

Website der Autorin — mit Blurbs (u. a. von Donna Leon), Exzerpten und Links zu Rezensionen.

(Dank an Perlentaucher.)

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