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Murder: a dark, shameful deed, the final resort of the desperate or a vile tool of the greedy - and an extremely strange, very English obsession. But where have this fixation develop? And what does it reveal about ourselves? In The Skill of the English Murder, Lucy Worsley explores this trend in forensic depth, revisiting notorious offences like the Ratcliff Highway Murders, which triggered a nationwide worry in the early 19th hundred years, and the case of Frederick and Maria Manning, the suburban few who were hanged after getting rid of Maria's fan and burying him under their kitchen floor. Our desire for offences like these became a form of national entertainment, inspiring novels and has, prose and paintings, poetry and true-crime journalism. The Skill of the English Murder is a distinctive exploration of the artwork of crime - and a riveting exploration into the English criminal soul.
