num_pages: 312
description: This is the story of a national obsession.Ever since the Ratcliff Highway Murders caused a nation-wide panic in Regency England the British have taken an almost ghoulish pleasure in 'a good murder'. This fascination helped create a whole new world of entertainment inspiring novels plays and films puppet shows paintings and true-crime journalism - as well as an army of fictional detectives who still enthral us today.'A Very British Murder' is Lucy Worsley's captivating account of this curious national obsession. It is a tale of dark deeds and guilty pleasures a riveting investigation into the British soul by one of our finest historians.
language: English
title: The Art of the English Murder: From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock
publisher: Pegasus Books