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''Ghoulishly entertaining'' Jacqueline Banerjee, Times Literary Supplement

''This is a great book for dipping into . . . the cases themselves are written engagingly and with appealing dramatisation of key events.''
Kim Fleet, Crime Review

A grisly book dedicated to the crimes, perversions and outrages of Victorian England, covering high-profile offences - such as the murder of actor William Terriss, whose stabbing at the stage door of the Adelphi Theatre in 1897 filled the front pages for many weeks - as well as lesser-known transgressions that scandalised the Victorian era.

The tales include murders and violent crimes, but also feature scandals that merely amused the Victorians. These include the story of a teenage man who married an actress, only to be shipped off to Australia by his disgusted parents; and the Italian ice-cream man who only meant to buy his sweetheart a hat but ended up proposing marriage instead. When he

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Ghoulishly entertaining. -- Jacqueline Banerjee * Times Literary Supplement *
This is a great book for dipping into . . . the cases themselves are written engagingly and with appealing dramatisation of key events. -- Kim Fleet * Crime Review *

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      Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
      Published 12 April 2018
      ISBN-13 9781472139474
      978-1472139474
      ISBN-10 147213947X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''Ghoulishly entertaining'' Jacqueline Banerjee, Times Literary Supplement

      ''This is a great book for dipping into . . . the cases themselves are written engagingly and with appealing dramatisation of key events.''
      Kim Fleet, Crime Review

      A grisly book dedicated to the crimes, perversions and outrages of Victorian England, covering high-profile offences - such as the murder of actor William Terriss, whose stabbing at the stage door of the Adelphi Theatre in 1897 filled the front pages for many weeks - as well as lesser-known transgressions that scandalised the Victorian era.

      The tales include murders and violent crimes, but also feature scandals that merely amused the Victorians. These include the story of a teenage man who married an actress, only to be shipped off to Australia by his disgusted parents; and the Italian ice-cream man who only meant to buy his sweetheart a hat but ended up proposing marriage instead. When he

      Trade Review
      Ghoulishly entertaining. -- Jacqueline Banerjee * Times Literary Supplement *
      This is a great book for dipping into . . . the cases themselves are written engagingly and with appealing dramatisation of key events. -- Kim Fleet * Crime Review *

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