William Corder And The Red Barn Murder

Author : S. McCorristine
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137439394
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William Corder and the Red Barn Murder written by S. McCorristine and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-18 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study reassesses the criminal body from sentencing to execution and afterlife, using the nineteenth-century Red Barn murder as a case study. Positioned within the burgeoning field of medical humanities, it places culture and power at the centre of debates surrounding criminal justice and public punishment.

Author : Peter Maggs
Publisher : Gwasg y Bwthyn
ISBN 13 : 9780956287021
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murder in the Red Barn written by Peter Maggs and published by Gwasg y Bwthyn. This book was released on 2015 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Linda Nessworthy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780954035600
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murdering Maria written by Linda Nessworthy and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Judith Flanders
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250024889
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Invention of Murder written by Judith Flanders and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Superb... Flanders's convincing and smart synthesis of the evolution of an official police force, fictional detectives, and real-life cause célèbres will appeal to devotees of true crime and detective fiction alike." -Publishers Weekly, starred review In this fascinating exploration of murder in nineteenth century England, Judith Flanders examines some of the most gripping cases that captivated the Victorians and gave rise to the first detective fiction Murder in the nineteenth century was rare. But murder as sensation and entertainment became ubiquitous, with cold-blooded killings transformed into novels, broadsides, ballads, opera, and melodrama-even into puppet shows and performing dog-acts. Detective fiction and the new police force developed in parallel, each imitating the other-the founders of Scotland Yard gave rise to Dickens's Inspector Bucket, the first fictional police detective, who in turn influenced Sherlock Holmes and, ultimately, even P.D. James and Patricia Cornwell. In this meticulously researched and engrossing book, Judith Flanders retells the gruesome stories of many different types of murder in Great Britain, both famous and obscure: from Greenacre, who transported his dismembered fiancée around town by omnibus, to Burke and Hare's bodysnatching business in Edinburgh; from the crimes (and myths) of Sweeney Todd and Jack the Ripper, to the tragedy of the murdered Marr family in London's East End. Through these stories of murder-from the brutal to the pathetic-Flanders builds a rich and multi-faceted portrait of Victorian society in Great Britain. With an irresistible cast of swindlers, forgers, and poisoners, the mad, the bad and the utterly dangerous, The Invention of Murder is both a mesmerizing tale of crime and punishment, and history at its most readable.

Author : Beth Flintoff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781839040450
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ballad of Maria Marten written by Beth Flintoff and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-23 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling play based on the nineteenth-century Red Barn Murder in Suffolk, rediscovering the lost story of the murder victim, Maria Marten.

Author : William Corder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An accurate account of the trial of William Corder for the murder of Maria Marten. To which are added letters sent in answer to Corder's matrimonial advertisement written by William Corder and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lucy Worsley
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1849906513
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Very British Murder written by Lucy Worsley and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a national obsession. Ever since the Ratcliffe Highway Murders caused a nation-wide panic in Regency England, the British have taken an almost ghoulish pleasure in 'a good murder'. This fascination helped create a whole new world of entertainment, inspiring novels, plays and films, puppet shows, paintings and true-crime journalism - as well as an army of fictional detectives who still enthrall us today. A Very British Murder is Lucy Worsley's captivating account of this curious national obsession. It is a tale of dark deeds and guilty pleasures, a riveting investigation into the British soul by one of our finest historians.

Author : Robert Huish
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 998 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Red Barn written by Robert Huish and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Graeme Macrae Burnet
Publisher : Saraband
ISBN 13 : 1913393607
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book His Bloody Project written by Graeme Macrae Burnet and published by Saraband. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and an international bestseller: a brilliant meditation on truth, power, and (in)sanity. A BBC Radio 4 Book Club pick The year is 1869. A brutal triple murder in a remote community in the Scottish Highlands leads to the arrest of a young man by the name of Roderick Macrae. A memoir written by the accused makes it clear that he is guilty, but it falls to the country’s finest legal and psychiatric minds to uncover what drove him to commit such merciless acts of violence. Was he insane? Only the persuasive powers of his advocate stand between Macrae and the gallows. Graeme Macrae Burnet tells an irresistible and original story about the provisional nature of truth, even when the facts seem clear. His Bloody Project is a mesmerising literary thriller set in an unforgiving landscape where the exercise of power is arbitrary.

Author : Jan Bondeson
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750981865
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ripper of Waterloo Road written by Jan Bondeson and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2017-01-13 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jack the Ripper first prowled the streets of London, an evening newspaper commented that his crimes were as ghastly as those committed by Eliza Grimwood's murderer fifty years earlier. Hers is arguably the most infamous and brutal of all nineteenth-century London killings. Eliza was a high-class prostitute, and on 26 May 1838, following an evening at the theatre, she brought a 'client' back to her home in Waterloo Road. The morning after, she was found with her throat cut and her abdomen viciously 'ripped'. The client was nowhere to be seen. The ensuing murder investigation was convoluted, with suspects ranging from an alcoholic bricklayer to a royal duke. Londoners from all walks of life followed the story with a horror and fascination – among them Charles Dickens, who took inspiration from Eliza's death when he wrote the murder of Nancy in Oliver Twist. Despite this feverish interest, the case was left unsolved, becoming the subject of 'penny dreadfuls' and urban legend. Unusually for a crime of this early period, the diary of the police officer leading the investigation has been preserved for posterity, and Jan Bondeson takes full advantage of this unique access to a Victorian murder inquiry. Skilfully dissecting what evidence remains, he links this murder with a series of other opportunist early Victorian slayings, and, in putting forward a credible new suspect, concludes that the Ripper of Waterloo Road was, in fact, a serial killer claiming as many as four victims.