A Very British Murder

In this book, Lucy Worsley, an English historian and author of a number of history-themed bestsellers, explains how murder—a dark, shameful act, the last resort of desperate people or a weapon of wicked villains—became a British national obsession. She shows how this fascination led to the creation of an entirely new world of entertainment, including detective novels and plays, paintings and films, poetic works, and documentary crime journalism. She has created a gripping story about how crime turned into art.