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Victorian Murders
£9.10£10.40 (-13%)
This book features fifty-six Victorian cases of murder covered in the sensational weekly penny journal the Illustrated Police Newsbetween 1867 and 1900. Some of them are famous, like the Bravo Mystery of 1876, the Llangibby Massacre of 1878 and the Mrs Pearcey case of 1890; others are little-known, like the Acton Atrocity of 1880, the Ramsgate Mystery of 1893 and the Grafton Street Murder of 1894. Take your ticket for the house of horrors.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Amberley Publishing (15 Sept. 2019) |
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| Language | English |
| Paperback | 320 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1445694433 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1445694436 |
| Dimensions | 12.7 x 2.29 x 19.69 cm |
by Amazon Customer
Enjoyed reading crimes of long ago.
by Gemma
Amazing book I love it
by Tiptonian
An excellent book that is very well written and presented. This is the first time I have read this author and look forward to reading more of his books in the future.
by Max George
Well there’s not much I can say about the story beacuse I didn’t actually read the book. When it arrived I was so excited to get it but once I opened the parcel I was really disappointed at the lack of thickness of the book. Now this was probably my fault as I think they state in the selling add how many pages the books are and I did not take into consideration looking at this detail in the advert. So I made a conscious decision not to read it and return it because I did not want to spoil reading the story because you see I took the lack of thickness (and once I opened the book the print was rather big too) to mean not a good detailed and in-depth story and that is not what I want out of a book. Now the story is of great interest to me so I will be looking at finding another book with the same story but in much greater detail. Also for all of the above reasons I found this book rather expensive for what it was. Thankfully Amazon had no problems with me returning this item and got my money back within a few days of returning . So thanks Amazon
by Michael Burridge
Good read nice short stories just the ticket to take to bed
by John A
Interesting enough, but the prose doesn’t render the Victorian era in vivid evocative detail. The stories are told competently enough, but it often feels that increased detail of the minutiae of the mundane aspects of the tales wins out over the more fascinating and salacious elements.
It seemed very odd after reading dozens of stories about people often living in a society of deprivation and inequality motivated to do terrible deeds to finish with a paragraph decrying Atlee (presumably the welfare state was the trouble) and heralding the, “Thatcherite renaissance”. Good grief.
by Ronnie
Some great stories in here.
by Dominique
Great read. Some of it was unbelievable that these things actually happened. Had quite a few people borrow it from me.