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Murder by the Book: A Sensational Chapter in Victorian Crime

“A fascinating portrait of Victorian London” Observer”I devoured it in one sitting” Alison Weir “Excellent” Dan Snow Early on the morning of 6 May 1840, on an ultra-respectable Mayfair street, the elderly Lord William Russell was discovered in bed with his throat cut so deeply that the head was almost severed. When Lord William`s assassin claimed to having been inspired by a recent sensational novel, it sent shock waves through literary London, and drew both Dickens and Thackeray into the fray. The crime, the investigation, the city`s fevered fixation and the mores of the Victorian age are all brilliantly evoked and scrutinized in Claire Harman`s spellbinding account of a surprisingly literary crime. “A scandalous Victorian mystery” Guardian

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