Great And Horrible News: Murder Mayhem In Early Modern Britain Blessin Adams William Collins Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

‘Grimly Fascinating … Engrossing’ Daily Mail Nine Historic Crimes One Familiar Obsession In Early Modern England Murder Truly Was Most Foul Trials Were Gossipy Events Packed To The Rafters With Noisome Spectators Executions Public Proceedings Which Promised Not Only Gore But Desperate Confessions And Grandest Righteous Human Drama Bookshops Saw Grisly Stories Of Crime Death Sell Like Hot Cakes This History Unfolds True Criminal Investigation Forensic Techniques High Court So Much More Thrilling Narrative We Follow A Fugitive Killer Through Streets London Citizen Detectives Clamouring Help Officials Close Net Untangle Mystery Suspected Staged Suicide Newly Emerging Science Pathology See Mother Trying Clear Her Dead Daughter’s Name While Other Women Faced Accusations – Sometimes Murdering Their Own Children These Are Pieced Together From Original Research Using Coroner’s Inquests Records Parish Archives Letters Diaries Cheap Street Pamphlets That Proliferated Satisfy Voracious Intensely Personal Portray Lives Real People As They Confronted Extraordinary Crises Infanticide Miscarriage Many Historical Laws Attitudes Concerning May Strike Us Exceptionally Cruel Yet Still Remind Some Things Never Change: Fascinated By Narratives Today Continue Be Grand Spectacles Female Killers Frequently Cast Aberrant Objects Hatred Sexual Desire Remains Sin Within Religious Organisations Until 1960S Great Horrible News! Explores Strange Appear Shockingly Σελίδες: 304 Διαστάσεις: 12 9X12 9Cm