Book Description
The new definitive guide to Victorian crime.
Author : Neil R. A. Bell
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 20,81 MB
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1445647877
The new definitive guide to Victorian crime.
Author : Major Arthur Griffiths
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 10,13 MB
Release : 2010-03-23
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 0750961716
Victorian Murders contains all the most shocking cases of murder from Victorian true-crime classic Mysteries of Police & Crime. The author, Major Arthur Griffiths (1838–1908), was Inspector of Her Majesty's Prisons and deputy governor of Millbank and Wormwood Scrubs, and was most famous for his association with the Whitechapel case. He knew many of the greatest detectives of the day, and, as a result, was the first to describe in print the three men – Kosminski, Ostrog and Druitt – that the police suspected of being 'Jack the Ripper'. This fascinating volume also includes every other case of note in the annals of Victorian crime. From Elizabeth Brownrigg, who whipped her domestic into an early grave, to the horrific tale of Henry Wainwright, who attempted to transport the dismembered body of his lover across London, it is not for the faint of heart. Richly illustrated, including early sketches by Arthur Rackham, and filled with countless tales of poisoners, sadists, serial killers and cases that have never been solved, this is a book that no true-crime fan should be without.
Author : Peter Chrisp
Publisher : Wayland
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 20,66 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Crime
ISBN : 9780750237390
Author : Judith Rowbotham
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 32,4 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0814209734
"The essays in this book set out to explore the ways in which Victorians used newspapers to identify the causes of bad behavior and its impacts, and the ways in which they tried to "distance" criminals and those guilty of "bad" behavior from the ordinary members of society, including identification of them as different according to race of sexual orientation. It also explores how threats from within "normal" society were depicted and the panic that issues like "baby-farming" caused." "Victorian alarm was about crimes and bad behavior which they saw as new or unique to their period - but which were not new then and which, in slightly different dress, are still causing panic today. What is striking about the essays in this collection are the ways in which they echo contemporary concerns about crime and bad behavior, including panics about "new" types of crime. This has implications for modern understandings of how society needs to understand crime, demonstrating that while there are changes over time, there are also important continuities."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Leonard de Vries
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 20,33 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Crime
ISBN : 9780356026497
Author : Leonard De Vries
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 38,19 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Criminals
ISBN :
Author : Judith Flanders
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 41,38 MB
Release : 2013-07-23
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1250024889
"Superb... Flanders's convincing and smart synthesis of the evolution of an official police force, fictional detectives, and real-life cause célèbres will appeal to devotees of true crime and detective fiction alike." -Publishers Weekly, starred review In this fascinating exploration of murder in nineteenth century England, Judith Flanders examines some of the most gripping cases that captivated the Victorians and gave rise to the first detective fiction Murder in the nineteenth century was rare. But murder as sensation and entertainment became ubiquitous, with cold-blooded killings transformed into novels, broadsides, ballads, opera, and melodrama-even into puppet shows and performing dog-acts. Detective fiction and the new police force developed in parallel, each imitating the other-the founders of Scotland Yard gave rise to Dickens's Inspector Bucket, the first fictional police detective, who in turn influenced Sherlock Holmes and, ultimately, even P.D. James and Patricia Cornwell. In this meticulously researched and engrossing book, Judith Flanders retells the gruesome stories of many different types of murder in Great Britain, both famous and obscure: from Greenacre, who transported his dismembered fiancée around town by omnibus, to Burke and Hare's bodysnatching business in Edinburgh; from the crimes (and myths) of Sweeney Todd and Jack the Ripper, to the tragedy of the murdered Marr family in London's East End. Through these stories of murder-from the brutal to the pathetic-Flanders builds a rich and multi-faceted portrait of Victorian society in Great Britain. With an irresistible cast of swindlers, forgers, and poisoners, the mad, the bad and the utterly dangerous, The Invention of Murder is both a mesmerizing tale of crime and punishment, and history at its most readable.
Author : Jan Bondeson
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 44,41 MB
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1445666316
This book features fifty-six Victorian murder cases from the files of the Illustrated Police News.
Author : Leonard de Vries
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,88 MB
Release : 1971-01-01
Category : Crime
ISBN : 9780800861209
Author : C. Clarke
Publisher : Springer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 27,87 MB
Release : 2014-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0230390544
This book investigates the development of crime fiction in the 1880s and 1890s, challenging studies of late-Victorian crime fiction which have given undue prominence to a handful of key figures and have offered an over-simplified analytical framework, thereby overlooking the generic, moral, and formal complexities of the nascent genre.