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100	1		_aHarman, Claire, _eauthor. _0n 83006657 _0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83006657. _4aut.
245	1	0	_aMurder by the book : _bthe crime that shocked Dickens's London / _cClaire Harman.
250			_aFirst American edition.
260			_aNew York : _bAlfred A. Knopf, _c2019.
264		1	_aNew York : _bAlfred A. Knopf, _c2019.
300			_a250 pages : _billustrations (some color) ; _c22 cm.
336			_atext _2rdacontent _btxt.
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia _bn.
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier _bnc.
500			_a"This is a Borzoi Book."
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 217-244) and index.
505	0		_aA last walk -- The crime -- This nightmare of a book -- The play -- The investigation -- The trial -- In the Stone Jug -- The execution -- The aftermath -- Postscript : unanswered questions.
520			_a"From the prize-winning biographer--the fascinating, little-known story of a Victorian-era murder that rocked literary London, leading Charles Dickens, William Thackeray, and Queen Victoria herself to wonder: can a novel kill? In May 1840, Lord William Russell, well known in London's highest social circles, was found with his throat cut. The brutal murder had the whole city talking. The police suspected Russell's valet, Courvoisier, but the evidence was weak. And the missing clue lay in the unlikeliest place: what Courvoisier had been reading. In the years just before the murder, new printing methods had made books cheap and abundant, the novel form was on the rise, and suddenly everyone was reading. The best-selling titles were the most sensational true-crime stories. Even Dickens and Thackeray, both at the beginning of their careers, fell under the spell of these tales--Dickens publicly admiring them, Thackeray rejecting them. One such phenomenon was William Harrison Ainsworth's Jack Sheppard, the story of an unrepentant criminal who escaped the gallows time and again. When Courvoisier finally confessed his guilt, he would cite this novel in his defense. Murder By the Book combines the thrilling true-crime story with a illuminating account of the rise of the novel form and the battle for its early soul between the most famous writers of the time. It is a superbly researched, vividly written, fascinating read from first to last"-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aCourvoisier, Francois Benjamin, _d-1840 _xTrials, litigation, etc. _0n 87837733.
600	1	0	_aRussell, William, _cLord, _d1767-1840. _0nb2009006405 _0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nb2009006405.
600	1	0	_aAinsworth, William Harrison, _d1805-1882. _tJack Sheppard. _0no2018115025 _0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2018115025.
650		0	_aMurder _zEngland _zLondon _0sh 88007395.
650		0	_aMurder in literature _0sh 94006704 _0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94006704.
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aHarman, Claire, author. _tMurder by the book _bFirst American edition. _dNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019 _z9780525520405 _w(DLC) 2018043723.
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