A Very British Murder: The Story of a National Obsession by Lucy Worsley
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Blurb: Murder – a dark, shameful deed, the last resort of the desperate or a vile tool of the greedy. And a very strange, very British obsession. But where did this fixation develop? And what does it tell us about ourselves?
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Ian Critchley, The Sunday Times
“Although short, Worsley’s book covers a great deal of ground; even if this means that it tends at times to skim over the surface of its subject, it provides an excellent overview of how the consumption of crime became a dominant part of our cultural landscape.”
Rebecca Armstrong, The Independent
“Worsley’s book is stuffed with interesting insights into our love of crime, although sometimes the pacing can be a little uneven, no doubt because of its inception as a television programme. A chapter each on Christie and Sayers, but none on Marsh, seems slightly strange. However, as a guilty pleasure or a pleasant pastime, murder removed from reality still thrills us (one in three books sold today is a crime novel), and Worsley captures this bloody love affair very well.”
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