Purely British murder. Warley L.

In this book, Lucy Warley, an English historian, the author of a number of bestsellers on historical topics, tells how the murder is a dark, shameful act, the last remedy or vile weapon of villains - became British national obsession. It shows how this hobby led to the emergence of a whole new world of entertainment, including detective novels and plays, painting and films, poetic works and documentary criminal journalism. She got an exciting story about how the crime was turned into art.