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Christopher Hibbert's immensely readable narrative takes the reader through the lurid story of crime, detection, conviction and punishment. He discusses murder as a lust and murder as a trade: mutilation, torture, lynching and flogging: the guillotine, the gallows and the gas chamber.Christopher Hibbert is the author of 'The Roots of Evil: A Social History of Crime and Punishment (Sutton History Classics)', published 2003 under ISBN 9780750933346 and ISBN 0750933348.
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