| Classic Crimes Contributor(s): Roughead, William (Author), Sante, Lucy (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0940322463 ISBN-13: 9780940322462 Publisher: New York Review of Books OUR PRICE: $25.16 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2000 Annotation: Dorothy Sayers called William Roughead "the best showman who ever stood before the door of the chamber of horrors, " and his true crime stories, written in the early 1900s, are among the glories of the genre. Displaying a meticulous command of evidence and unerring dramatic flair, Roughead brings to life some of the most notorious crimes and extraordinary trials of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England and Scotland. Utterly engrossing, these accounts of pre-meditated mayhem and miscarried justice also cast a powerful light on the evil that human beings, and human institutions, find both tempting to contemplate and all too easy to do. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - True Crime | Murder - General - History | Europe - Great Britain - 20th Century - Social Science | Criminology |
| Dewey: 364.152 |
| LCCN: 00009225 |
| Series: New York Review Books (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 1.58" H x 5" W x 7.96" (1.20 lbs) 576 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Dorothy Sayers called William Roughead "the best showman who ever stood before the door of the chamber of horrors," and his true crime stories, written in the early 1900s, are among the glories of the genre. Displaying a meticulous command of evidence and unerring dramatic flair, Roughead brings to life some of the most notorious crimes and extraordinary trials of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England and Scotland. Utterly engrossing, these accounts of pre-meditated mayhem and miscarried justice also cast a powerful light on the evil that human beings, and human institutions, find both tempting to contemplate and all too easy to do. |