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Pleasant Thoughts of Murder in the Victorian Era

Murder ‘is very pleasant to think about in the abstract,’ as the Victorians proved with their obsessive interest in the macabre. Judith Flanders talks about her new book.

Lucy Scholes

Published Jul. 29 2013 4:45AM EDT

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Lucy Scholes

Lucy Scholes

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