Murder by candlelight
Subtitle: the gruesome crimes behind our romance with the macabre
By: Michael Knox Beran
Edition: First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9781605988207
Subjects: Social life and customs; Murder; Case studies; History
Description: "In the early nineteenth century, a series of murders took place in and around London which shocked the whole of England. The appalling nature of the crimes: a brutal slaying in the gambling netherworld, the slaughter of two entire households, and the first of the modern lust-murders was magnified not only by the lurid atmosphere of an age in which candlelight gave way to gaslight, but also by the efforts of some of the keenest minds of the period to uncover the gruesomest details of the killings"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-256) and index.