Murder in Shakespeare's England

Murder in Seventeenth-Century England is a grisly social history of how murder was committed, discovered and punished in Stuart England. It looks at many specific cases, providing details on the most popular serial killings, sex-based murders, and infanticide deaths of the time. The book shows that, just as today, people in the seventeenth century were fascinated with these violent crimes, filling the courts to watch the trials and crowding the execution squares to watch the hangings, even writing ballads and creating graphic prints on the most notorious cases of the times. With fascinating detail on how these crimes were ever successfully solved with little or no forensic evidence, this book will be intriguing to history buffs and true crime readers alike.