Damn His Blood

Peter Moore is a writer and freelance journalist. Born in Staffordshire in 1983, he studied history and sociology at Durham University and then spent six years working in the media in Madrid and London, where he was head of publishing at an award-winning digital agency. He now teaches creative writing at City University in London.

出版者:Chatto & Windus

作者:Peter Moore

页数:364

出版时间:2012

价格:0

isbn号码:9780701186456

图书标签:王木木探案全集

'Damn him!' he swore. 'There is no more harm in shooting him than a mad dog!'

The brutal murder of the Reverend George Parker in the rural village of Oddingley on Midsummer's Day in 1806 - shot and beaten to death, his body set on fire and left smouldering in his own glebe field - gripped everyone from the Home Secretary in London to newspapermen across the country. It was a strange and stubborn case. The investigation lasted twenty-four years and involved inquests, judges and coroners, each more determined than the last to solve Oddingley's most gruesome crime - or crimes, as it turned out.

Damn His Blood is a fascinating glimpse into English rural life at the beginning of the nineteenth century, so often epitomised by the civilised drawing rooms of Jane Austen or the rural idylls of Constable. England was exhausted and nervous: dogged by Pitt's war taxes, mounting inflation and the lingering threat of a French invasion, violence was rife, particularly in rural communities where outsiders were regarded with deep suspicion.

With a cast of characters straight out of Hardy, Damn His Blood is a nail-biting true story of brutality, greed and ruthlessness which brings an elusive society vividly back to life.

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R4 read by Alex Jennings. 又是一出人性大戏，被害者是众矢之的，查到了凶手却没有一个人被定罪！

R4 read by Alex Jennings. 又是一出人性大戏，被害者是众矢之的，查到了凶手却没有一个人被定罪！

R4 read by Alex Jennings. 又是一出人性大戏，被害者是众矢之的，查到了凶手却没有一个人被定罪！

R4 read by Alex Jennings. 又是一出人性大戏，被害者是众矢之的，查到了凶手却没有一个人被定罪！

R4 read by Alex Jennings. 又是一出人性大戏，被害者是众矢之的，查到了凶手却没有一个人被定罪！