The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime

The Invention of Murder

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

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Judith Flanders
Judith Flanders
2011 ā€¢Ā 114 pages

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