{"product_id":"9781032853192-mummy-in-the-cupboard-murder","title":"The Mummy in the Cupboard Murder","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eForensic Science, Magic and the Gothic Imagination\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing the mid-twentieth century microhistorical example of the so-called ‘Mummy in the Cupboard Murder’, Lizzie Seal examines the significance of the Gothic to understandings of crime.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing the mid-twentieth-century microhistorical example of the so-called ‘Mummy in the Cupboard Murder’, Lizzie Seal examines the significance of the Gothic to understandings of crime.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a case that hinged on forensic evidence, Sarah Jane Harvey, the owner of a boarding house in Rhyl, North Wales, was tried for the murder of Frances Knight whose naturally mummified corpse was discovered in a locked cupboard of the house in 1960. The book applies Gothic criminology to an empirical historical example, considers the interchange between fact and fiction, traces developments in mid twentieth-century forensic pathology, and contributes to historical criminology by extending this approach’s conceptual base.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Mummy in the Cupboard Murder\u003c\/i\u003e is ideal for students and scholars of cultural criminology, crime and media, twentieth-century British history, and crime history, as well as those with an interest in the Gothic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57918638883190,"sku":"9781032853192","price":48.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_41423957_cf3b9ec4-57d2-463b-9253-de82be64c5de.jpg?v=1779916956","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781032853192-mummy-in-the-cupboard-murder","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}