1st Edition
The Mummy in the Cupboard Murder Forensic Science, Magic and the Gothic Imagination
By Lizzie Seal
Copyright 2026
174 Pages
by
Routledge
174 Pages
by
Routledge
174 Pages
by
Routledge
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Using 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.
In 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... Read more
Prologue 1 Introduction: Murder and the Gothic Imagination 2 The Mummified Corpse 3 The Multiple Murderer 4 The Gothic Double 5 The Sensation by the Sea 6 The Truth Seekers 7 Afterlife Epilogue
Biography
Lizzie Seal is Professor of Criminology at the University of Sussex, UK.
