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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bell, Amy Helen, 1973- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • London crime scenes of the 1930s
  • Violent crime and the family in wartime London, 1939-45
  • Suspicious deaths and strangers in wartime London, 1939-45
  • Suspicious deaths and abortions in London, 1933-53
  • Infanticide in London, 1933-53
  • Suspicious deaths in post-war London, 1945-53.