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The Wicked Boy: An Infamous Murder in Victorian London

byKate Summerscale

The Wicked Boy brings Kate Summerscale's attention to the infamous murder in victorian london, treating the subject as a developing story rather than a settled conclusion. The argument in The Wicked Boy develops through archival sources, narrative history, and voices from the period, attending to both broad patterns and the revealing details that resist them. That perspective connects the infamous murder in victorian london to larger questions in history and true crime, without losing sight of the people living through the consequences.

Publisher

Penguin Publishing Group

Publication date

2017

Format

Print edition

Pages

400

ISBN

9780143110460