![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She divides her time between New York City and Oxford, England. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a frequent reviewer. The valet filled the warming pan with hot coals from the pantry fire and took it up to the bedroom. About the AuthorĬLAIRE HARMAN is the author of Charlotte Bront A Fiery Heart Sylvia Townsend Warner, for which she won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize biographies of Fanny Burney and Robert Louis Stevenson and Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World. Extract from Murder by the Book At about 11.50 p.m., the bell rang from the study: Lord William was going up to bed, late as ever. Could a novel really lead someone to kill? In Murder by the Book, Claire Harman blends a riveting true-crime whodunit with a fascinating account of the rise of the popular novel and the early battle for its soul among the most famous writers of the day. But when the prime suspect claimed to have been inspired by a sensational crime novel, it sent shock waves through literary London and drew both Dickens and Thackeray into the fray. The crime soon had everyone, including Queen Victoria, feverishly speculating about motives and methods. Early on the morning of May 6, 1840, the elderly Lord William Russell was found in his London house with his throat so deeply cut that his head was nearly severed. ![]()
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