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Murder capital : Suspicious deaths in London, 1933-53.

Murder capital is a historical study of unexpected deaths whose circumstances required official investigation in mid-twentieth-century London. Suspicious deaths - murders in the family and by strangers, infanticides and deaths from illegal abortions - reveal moments of personal and communal crisis i...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bell, Amy Helen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Manchester University Press, 2016.
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  • Murder Capital: SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN LONDON, 1933-53; Half Title Page ; Title Page; Copyright page ; Dedication ; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgements; Maps ; Introduction; 1: London crime scenes in the 1930s ; 2: Violent crime and the familyin wartime London, 1939-45; 3: Suspicious deaths and strangers inwartime London, 1939-45; 4: Suspicious deaths and abortions inLondon, 1933-53 ; 5: Infanticide in London, 1933-53 ; 6: Suspicious deaths inpost-war London, 1945-53 ; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.