Sentimental Murder
Publisher: HarperPerennial
Published: January 3, 2005
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780006552000
Subjects: Social history; True Crime; London, Greater London; c 1700 to c 1800
First sentence: JOHN MONTAGU, 4th Earl of Sandwich, was a tall gangling man with 'strong legs and arms' and a ruddy appearance that led the novelist Frances Burney, when she first met him in 1775, to compare him with a rough-hewn Jack Tar: 'he is a tall, stout man &amp; looks weather-proof as any sailor in the navy'.