“It is almost an unparalleled thing for a person of Ld William’s rank, to be killed like that. A fascinating, exhaustively researched exploration into how art can influence society and vice versa, Murder by the Book: The Crime That Shocked Dickens’s London turns an unflinching eye to the ways in which biases born of economic inequality affect the way crimes are investigated and prosecuted. “This is really too horrid!” the young Queen Victoria wrote in her diary.
From the acclaimed biographer-the fascinating, little-known. The murder of an aristocrat in his own bed transfixed all of London. A page-turner that can hold its own with any one of the many murder-minded podcasts out there. Together with the valet, a young Swiss named François Courvoisier, Sarah climbed the stairs to His Lordship’s chamber only to find his four-poster bed drenched in blood and Lord William’s corpse tucked under the covers, his throat slashed to near-decapitation. The maidservant, Sarah Mancer, had arisen early to find the dining and drawing rooms in disarray and the front door unbolted.
Early the next morning, screams pierced the exclusive Mayfair neighborhood where his townhouse stood. Harman recounts, on the night of May 5, 1840, an elderly aristocrat named Lord William Russell retired to his bedchamber. Nevertheless, its opening scene is the stuff that classic murder mysteries are made of.Īs Ms. ‘Murder by the Book: The Crime That Shocked Dickens’s London” is a work of nonfiction whose author, Claire Harman, is an acclaimed biographer and scholar of British literary culture. Claire Harman, previously a biographer of literary legends like Charlotte Bront and Robert Louis Stevenson, has now set her sights on true crime with an.
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