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.
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ISBN | 9780940322462 |
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Sprache | eng |
Cover | Kartonierter Einband (Kt) |
Verlag | Random House N.Y. |
Jahr | 20000831 |
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