Classic Crimes

By William Roughhead Introduction by Luc Sante


Classic Crimes
Online price: £8.99
Item is currently out of stock Paperback, 576 pages
Published: 9th January 1999

Category: Current Affairs and Politics, History


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.

'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



Publication Details:

Binding: Paperback, 576 pages
ISBN: 9780940322462
Format: 203mm x 127mm

Imprint: NYRB Classics


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