Ebook: Murder by candlelight: the gruesome crimes behind our romance with the macabre
Author: Michael Knox Beran
- Tags: Murder, England, London, History, 19th century, Case studies, London (England), Social life and customs, 19th century, Manners and customs, Murder, England, London
- Year: 2015
- Publisher: Pegasus Crime
- City: England--London., London (England)
- Edition: First Pegasus books cloth edition
- Language: English
- epub
"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 Read more...
Abstract: "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"