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The Invention of Murder by Judith Flanders

The Invention of Murder

How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime

by Judith Flanders
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  • First Published:
  • Jul 23, 2013, 576 pages
  • Paperback:
  • Jul 2014, 576 pages
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