Invention of Murder. How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime, Paperback - Judith Flanders

`We are a trading community, a commercial people. Murder is doubtless a very shocking offence, nevertheless as what is done is not to be undone, le...

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Reducere. She's into high tech. He's into homicide. The North Woods rock and roll when a savvy cyber-sleuth teams up with a hunky homicide cop to route corpo...

Laurent de Rodergues' tranquil seclusion in Saint-Chartier is destroyed when the renovator of the town's medieval chateau is found dead. Laurent is...

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Reducere. Nineteenth-century Britain was then the world's most prosperous nation, yet Victorians would bury meat in earth and wring sheets out in boiling wat...

A celebration of the alphabet, from its beginnings to its pre-eminence as the organizing principle for the world's knowledge.

Publisher: Canongate Books LtdAuthor(s): Judith CutlerNumber of pages: 224Collection: A Jodie Welsh MysteryPublication date: 2017Dimensions: 140 x ...

Tells the story of Francis Tukey and the formation of the Boston Police Department, featuring many of the department-s earliest cases and crises. S...

A celebration of the alphabet, from its beginnings to its pre-eminence as the organizing principle for the world's knowledge.

Reducere. From a New York Times-bestselling historian comes the story of how the alphabet ordered our world.A Place for Everything is the first-ever history ...

Connecting the emergence and development of certain dog breeds to both scientific understandings of race and blood as well as Britain's posture in ...

The author of The Victorian House and The Victorian City reveals details of Christmas past, from mummers' plays to the invention of Sellotape, debu...

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The untold story of how an unlikely anti-Islamic alliance of gay activists, feminists, fascists, evangelical Christians, populist politicians, and ...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Judith HudsonNumber of pages: 256Collection: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance CulturePubli...

The untold story of how Japan became a cultural superpower through the fantastic inventions that captured--and transformed--the world's imagination...

For more than 300 years Massachusetts executed men and women convicted of murder. This book offers an account of how the efforts of reformers and a...

Reducere. DescriptionWhy I was born in Africa sprouted into being when the author asked herself, amidst her deepest dark night of the soul in 2004, why she h...

Reducere. Michael Strevens's "provocative and fascinating" (Jennifer Szalai, New York Times) investigation of science asks two fundamental questions: Why is ...

Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionAuthor(s): Jake RansohoffNumber of pages: 400Collection: ExtravagantesPublication date: 2022...

Passion, deception and a detective with secrets of his own play out in this new murder mystery featuring recurring character Daniel Hawthorne, from...

The bestselling social history of Victorian domestic life, told through the letters, diaries, journals and novels of 19th-century men and women.

DescriptionFor centuries, different types of dogs were bred around the world for work, sport, or companionship. But it was not until Victorian time...

Reducere. Retired to the English countryside, an eighty-nine-year-old man, rumored to be a once-famous detective, is more concerned with his beekeeping than ...

The first in a speculative detective series set in LisbonPublisher: Hodder & StoughtonAuthor(s): Patricia MarquesNumber of pages: 384Collection: In...

Olympics in Athens 1896. The Invention of the Modern Olympic Games - Michael Llewellyn

A Fine Place for Death is the sixth compelling English village crime novel in Ann Granger's Mitchell & Markby series

Quintin Jardine's fifth Oz Blackstone mystery confirms this as one of the most original crime series aroundPublisher: Headline Publishing GroupAuth...

The idea of "world religions" expresses a vague commitment to multiculturalism. Not merely a descriptive concept, "world religions" is actually a p...

Reducere. When an old friend is arrested in Dublin, tour guide Lana Hansen will need the luck of the Irish to clear him of the crime.Lana is thrilled her fri...

Reducere. DescriptionMeet Tara Thorpe - she's Cambridge Police's newest recruit... but her dark past is never far behind her. Perfect for fans of Faith Marti...

Reducere. A riveting true story of murder and detection in 15th-century Paris, by one of the most brilliant medievalists of his generation. On a chilly Novem...