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

July 9, 2026 by bjornsnipe Leave a Comment

Pleasant it is, no doubt, to drink tea with your sweetheart, but most disagreeable to find her bubbling in the tea-urn- Thomas de Quincey     Judith Flanders spans the crime of the period, from the body snatching/murdering days of Burke and Hare to the joys of Harriet Lowe and “Sweet Fanny Addams” (two dismemberment victims whose names were used to sell of all things, canned meat), to of course, seeing as this is a book about Victorian crime, the entire chapter on Jack the […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: crime detection, Judith Flanders, murder, victorian england

bjornsnipe's CBR18 Review No:29 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: crime detection, Judith Flanders, murder, victorian england ·
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