Classic Crimes : New York Review Books (Paperback) - William Roughead

Classic Crimes

By: William Roughead

Paperback | 31 August 2000 | Edition Number 1

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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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'Reminds me how challenging crime investigation can be, helping me relish the task.' Stephen Wade, lecturer on the history of crime, University of Hull. Times Higher Education

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