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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
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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 *
