Book Review: Maureen Corrigan considers a true crime tale of murder in Dickens's London
‘Murder by the Book: The Crime That Shocked Dickens’s London” is a work of nonfiction whose author, Claire Harman, is an acclaimed biographer and scholar of British literary culture. Nevertheless, its opening scene is the stuff that classic murder mysteries are made of.
As Ms. Harman recounts, on the night of May 5, 1840, an elderly aristocrat named Lord William Russell retired to his bedchamber. Early the next morning, screams pierced the exclusive Mayfair neighborhood where his townhouse stood. The maidservant, Sarah Mancer,...
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