Gaslight Villainy (ePub)
True Tales of Victorian Murder
(Sprache: Englisch)
Hot on the heels of A Mix of Murders, Gaslight Villainy forms Grahame Farrell's second volume of gripping true-murder cases. But where A Mix of Murders covers the Twentieth Century, Gaslight Villainy treats the reader, in exquisite detail, to a selection of...
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Hot on the heels of A Mix of Murders, Gaslight Villainy forms Grahame Farrell's second volume of gripping true-murder cases. But where A Mix of Murders covers the Twentieth Century, Gaslight Villainy treats the reader, in exquisite detail, to a selection of fourteen crimes committed during the Victorian period. Founded, as with A Mix of Murders, on meticulous research, Farrell presents these cases with an equally clear, readable and articulate style that demonstrates the author's fine command of his subject.In one case, Gaslight Villainy educates us in the techniques of execution, and the methods of specific executioners - not, it is clear, an always-professional process performed by ever-adept professionals. In another tale, Farrell shows that lingering abhorrence towards dissection of human cadavers held great sway over resolution of the crimes of the time, and yet shows still how a jury used other lines of reason to find the perpetrator in question guilty.In Voyage of Death, as with the other cases, the reader enjoys excellent characterisation: shipboard existence and the very feel of the vessel itself come to life vividly, thus forming a backdrop to a most intriguing case. Most murders occur on dry land, over which the perpetrator may flee a great distance following their ungodly deed, but murder at sea changes this parameter, and the concomitant effects thus frame this particular case tightly, where one pressing-question is ever to the fore: who exactly was the guilty party?Farrell characterises the times superbly in this book, painting a detailed picture of a culture that relished public executions, where the remoteness of rural murders - counter-intuitively - did not lend a greater chance of escape from the law, and where good-old-fashioned policing was the public's strongest weapon in the face of malice aforethought. As with A Mix of Murders, the intelligent analyses in Gaslight Villainy give more than enough to satisfy the reader, but the rich context this book gives to its descriptions make it a must-have for true-crime aficionados. If you like your true crime served up with style, clarity and a sense of the times, you owe it to yourself to buy this book post haste.
Autoren-Porträt von Grahame Farrell
Grahame Farrell is a true-crime author and also works as a librarian.He sees a true-murder case as a miniature drama. The murderer, once he has committed the act, is essentially alone, his focus now entirely on not getting caught, and all the while balancing that priority with the need to act normally, to go about his business, to relate to his immediate social world. It is little wonder that Shakespeare and Dickens feature murder so prominently in their work. The rules of morality have been broken; only God and the killer know the secret. Grahame believes that true crime should be well-written and gripping, and should also inform the reader as much as possible as to what life was like in the period in which the case is set. Too many true-crime books are simply sensationalist and exploitative. A number of reviewers of Grahame's books have commented that they enjoy reading accounts of little-known cases which they are discovering for the first time. Grahame endorses that view, and always include several of these in his collections. His first book - 'A Mix of Murders' - is available in e-book format for all popular e-readers, as is his second volume, 'Gaslight Villainy' (a collection of Victorian murder cases). 'Blood on the Cobbles' (a second Victorian true-crime collection) will be published in e-book format in May 2014. If you wish to get in touch with Grahame, please do so by visiting the Kembra Publications website - kembrapublications.com, where you will find a contact form.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Grahame Farrell
- 2014, Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0992835631
- ISBN-13: 9780992835637
- Erscheinungsdatum: 22.05.2014
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