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|title=A Very British Murder: the Story of a National Obsession

|sort=Very British Murder: the Story of a National Obsession, A

|publisher=BBC

|date=September 2013

|website=http://www.lucyworsley.com/

|summary=The British obsession with murder over the last two centuries, a study published to accompany a BBC TV series of the same name.

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The British are an illogical race. Short of genocide, murder is the worst, most shocking crime an individual can commit, yet it has become a kind of commodity which over the last years has been endlessly packaged as a mass market entertainment industry. We buy newspapers and magazines with blow-by-blow accounts of dreadful true life cases, we read thrillers, watch TV drama series and documentaries, and we can take part in murder mystery evenings and weekends at pubs and hotels.