The top 10 crime scenes in art

From Magritte's assassin to Caravaggio's cardsharps and Warhol's unforgettable take on race riots of the 60s, here are the best artworks that tackle jealousy, murder and intrigue head on

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The crime in this troubling work of art is not being perpetrated by "rioters", but by the police. As demonstrators take to the streets for civil rights in Birmingham, Alabama, a police officer deliberately sets a dog on an unarmed man. So this photographic image is evidence. Warhol, so often seen as a heartless observer of celebrity and sleaze, carefully chose it and turned it into a print to make that evidence permanent, indelible, unforgettable.

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