She divides her time between New York City and Oxford, England. The valet filled the warming pan with hot coals from the pantry fire and took it up to the bedroom. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a frequent reviewer. Extract from Murder by the Book At about 11.50 p.m., the bell rang from the study: Lord William was going up to bed, late as ever. Reviewed by Gill Davies Here is a real treat for readers interested in the sometimes hidden side of Victorian society and. Murder by the book Hardcover Import, Januby Claire Harman (Author) 18 ratings Hardcover 28.31 6 Used from 5.66 1 New from 28.31 Paperback 16.33 5 Used from 14.64 2 New from 16.33 This beautifully produced and impressively researched historical account of a celebrated Victorian murder with a literary twist reads like a thriller. About the AuthorĬLAIRE HARMAN is the author of Charlotte Bront A Fiery Heart Sylvia Townsend Warner, for which she won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize biographies of Fanny Burney and Robert Louis Stevenson and Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World.
Could a novel really lead someone to kill? In Murder by the Book, Claire Harman blends a riveting true-crime whodunit with a fascinating account of the rise of the popular novel and the early battle for its soul among the most famous writers of the day. But when the prime suspect claimed to have been inspired by a sensational crime novel, it sent shock waves through literary London and drew both Dickens and Thackeray into the fray. The crime soon had everyone, including Queen Victoria, feverishly speculating about motives and methods. Early on the morning of May 6, 1840, the elderly Lord William Russell was found in his London house with his throat so deeply cut that his head was nearly severed.
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