{"product_id":"the-mummy-in-the-cupboard-murder-forensic-science-magic-and-the-gothic-imagination-9781032853192","title":"The Mummy in the Cupboard Murder: Forensic Science, Magic and the Gothic Imagination","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Lizzie Seal\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Gothic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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\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\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","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47772930474135,"sku":"9781032853192","price":5011.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781032853192.webp?v=1777976714","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-mummy-in-the-cupboard-murder-forensic-science-magic-and-the-gothic-imagination-9781032853192","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}