What is it that makes the reserved British so obsessed with bloody crime? And what does it say about the character of the nation?
In A Very British Murder, a global study of a national obsession, renowned researcher Lucy Worsley explores the Ratcliffe Road murders. They caused a real panic in their time! She will also touch on the case of Frederick and Maria Manning: they killed Maria’s lover and buried him under their kitchen floor. Together with us, she will try to understand how the global brand of “British detective fiction” was born, which is even more popular than “Five O’Clock Tea”.
A Very British Murder is a unique account of the art of crime and a gripping exploration of the British soul, written by one of the finest living historians. A Very British Murder is like a great British detective story, only better.
Lucy Worsley is the bestselling author of The English House: An Intimate History and Visiting Jane Austen.