A Very British Murder

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Yet the years following WW1 also saw the flowering of horror and supernatural literature, as well as highly visceral and lurid thrillers by Edgar Wallace, Sapper, Sax Rohmer and many others. From 1996 to 2002, she was an inspector of historic buildings for EnglishHeritage in the East Midlands region. When she turns to representations of the forensic response to crime, she concentrates on Conan Doyle, whose The Hound of the Baskervilles she places firmly in the tradition of manly literature leading up to the First World War. Informative and entertaining, The Art of the English Murder is likely to appeal to those that are interested in the evolution of crime stories and detective novels.

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Her position seems to be that the mystery novel declined as a form after the Second World War, to be replaced by the more violent thriller genre – true to an extent, but the huge market for cosies suggests to me that there’s a bigger appetite for ‘traditional’ murder mysteries still than I felt Worsley acknowledged. The onlookers were both horrified and fascinated by the killings, which De Quincey described as the “sublimest and most entire in their excellence that ever were committed”. She has an easy to read style with a slight quirkiness, reminiscent of her presentation style on TV. In 2016, Worsley presented the three-part documentary Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia with Lucy Worsley in January and Lucy Worsley: Mozart's London Odyssey in June. At a point during the birth of modern Britain, murder entered our national psyche, and it’s been a part of us ever since.She has presented numerous television series, including Harlots, Housewives and Heroines for BBC4 and If Walls Could Talk for BBC1, for which she also wrote an accompanying book.

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Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book. In 2002 I made a brief excursion to Glasgow Museums before coming down to London as Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces in 2003. He tried to soften the blow by later adding, 'The spy story may perhaps only now be realising its poetic possibilities, as the admirers of Graham Greene contend . The first half of the book was much more detailed than the second which felt rather rushed, nevertheless I enjoyed Worsley's potted history being a fan of crime fiction and found that there were many ideas new to me. Much of the material will be familiar to anyone with an interest in crime fiction or true crime, but the format draws interesting parallels between the society of a given time and how that influenced the type of crime fiction that was being written.I don’t read a lot of non-fiction but I was attracted to this because it came up as a book club choice just after I had enjoyed several Lucy Worsley documentaries. Continuing on with the entertainment theme, Worsley introduces sensational journalism, the theatre, Madame Tussaud’s wax museum, a puppet show, and detective fiction. The Art of the English Murder by Lucy Worsley is written to accompany a BBC television series on which she is a presenter.