” Worsley opens with a sketch of Thomas De Quincey, who in 1827 published a now- famous essay called “On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts.” She carries her story all the way to the 1940s, when critic Edmund Wilson dismissed the then-hugely popular detective-story genre in his essay “Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?” ” That is also the title of her new book in the United Kingdom, but in the United States it has been needlessly retitled as “ The Art of the English Murder. L ucy Worsley is an English television presenter who has written and hosted popular BBC programs such as the three-part series that aired last year as “ A Very British Murder.
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