Ais’s Reviews > The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime > Status Update

Bought this book in a small town bookstore when I read the opening line, a quote from Thomas de Quincey: "pleasant it is, no doubt, to drink tea with your sweetheart, but most disagreeable to find her bubbling in the tea-urn." And the author's comment: "it reinforces a sense of safety, even of pleasure, to know that murder is possible, just not here." Fascinating topic IMO.