Murder capital is a historical study of suspicious and unexpected deaths whose circumstances required official investigation in mid-twentieth-century London. Setting the institutional ordering of the city against the hidden intimate spaces where the crimes occurred, the book charts the importance of urban space to the investigation, classification and public perceptions of violent crime. The Second World War transformed violent crime in the capital, changing the pre-war pattern of killings committed within the family to one of murder committed by strangers in chance encounters, and...
Murder capital is a historical study of suspicious and unexpected deaths whose circumstances required official investigation in mid-twentieth-century ...
