by Lucy Worsley
24. The Dangerous Edge of Things
Graham Greene, Brighton Rock, Vintage Classics edition introduced by J. M. Coetzee (2004)
Index
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Adams, Fanny 75
Allingham, Margery 229, 232–3, 240, 271
Altick, Richard
Victorian Studies in Scarlet 75–6, 77
analytical chemists 134
Anatomy Act (1832) 198
anthropometric measurement 206
antimony 148, 149
arsenic 128–9, 142
Marsh Test for 134
Auden, W.H. 272
Austen, Jane 277
Northanger Abbey 70
Baffle Book, The 261
Baker, William 137–8
Balham Mystery 146–9
ballads 97
Bally, William 138
Bartlett, Adelaide 149
Beerbohm, Max 54
Bell, Dr 201
Bennett, Alan 268
Bermondsey Horror (1849) 113–24
Bernth, Piv 292
Bertillon system 206, 207
Bethlehem Hospital 44–5
biographies, murderer 2–3
Black Mask (magazine) 280
Blackwood’s Magazine 15
Blake, Joseph ‘Blueskin’ 34–5
Blake, Nicholas
A Question of Proof 270
Bloody Code, The 122
Bloomsbury set 76
body-snatchers 75
Bonati, Minnie 209–10
Bond, James 5, 273
Bose, Hemchandra 206
Bow Street Runners 35, 215
Brabazon, James 254
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth 164, 179–86, 183
Aurora Floyd 184
background and early life 179–81, 186
Lady Audley’s Secret 177, 181–5
Bravo, Charles 147–9
Bravo, Florence 146–9, 147, 150
Brett, Simon 266
Bricks (actor) 109–10
Broadchurch (TV series) 292
broadsides 64, 65–9
confessions of murderers in 68–9, 94–5
reports on crime 65–6, 67–8
selling of by paterrers 66–7
Brontë, Branwell 15
Browning, Robert 209
Buchan, John 226
The Thirty-Nine Steps 226, 227
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward 49, 73–4
Eugene Aram 73
Pelham 73
Burke and Hare 75
Burney, Ian 137
Bury St Edmunds Museum 94, 99, 100, 101
Bywaters, Freddy 284, 291
Calendar of Horrors 71
Campion, Albert (fictional detective) 159, 232, 270, 271
Carlyle, Thomas 49, 50
Carnell, Jennifer 185
Carroll, Lewis 193
Catnach, James 48
ceramic figurines 98–9
Chamber’s Edinburgh Journal 60
Chandler, Raymond 262–3, 274, 280–1
The Big Sleep 281–2
‘The Simple Art of Murder’ 276
Charles II, King 54
Chase, James Hadley
No Orchids for Miss Blandish 289–90
Chesterton, G.K. 229, 258, 263
cholera epidemic (London) (1849) 113
Christie, Agatha 224, 230, 233, 235–43, 237, 258, 270–1, 272
attack on by Wilson 274
criticism of books 236–7
‘The Disappearance’ 238–40, 239
getting plot ideas 242
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd 228, 259, 268–9
The Mysterious Affair at Styles 242–3
personal life 233, 235–6, 238
secret of success 243
shunning of limelight 241
and writing 241
Clarence, Duke of 193
Cleft Chin Murder (1944) 290–1
Cluedo 261
Cobbett, William 51
Coetzee, J.M. 282–3
Coleridge, William 16
Collins, Wilkie 156, 164–77, 165
Armadale 160, 169–74, 176
friendship with Dickens 168
marriage law campaign 172–3
mistresses 173–4
The Moonstone 160–1, 164–7
Opium use 167–8
The Woman in White 164, 169
Conan Doyle, Arthur 138, 194, 199–205, 201, 225–6, 229, 238, 260
‘The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot’ 204–5
The Adventure of the Norwood Builder 207
The Adventures of the Speckled Band 138
His Last Bow 204, 226
The Hound of the Baskervilles 226
medical training 201
short stories in Strand Magazine 225
A Study in Scarlet 199–201, 202–4
see also Holmes, Sherlock
constables 32–3, 35, 36, 38, 40
Cook, John Parsons 132–3, 133, 136
Corder, William 3, 92–101, 95, 104, 109
corpses, dissection of by medical students 94, 197–8
costermongers 72
Cotton, Mary Ann 130
Cournos, John 251
Cowper, William 45
Cox, Jane 148
crime scene, visiting of by public 43–6
Criminal Justice Act (1948) 272
criminal records 205–6
Crippen, Dr 4
Critchley, T. A. 37
Crofts, Freeman Wills 229
Crone, Rosalind 65, 66, 77, 106–7, 109
Crowe, Catherine
The Adventures of Susan Hopley 212–15
Cuff, Sergeant (fictional character) 160–1
Curtius, Philippe 56, 57
De La Mare, Walter 49
De Quincey, Thomas 3, 9–18, 49, 63, 291
Confessions of an English Opium Eater 9, 14–15
friendship with Wordsworth 13
‘On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts’ 2, 15, 16–18, 19, 20–1, 24, 28, 127
opium use 10–11, 13
personal life 12–14, 15
Detection Club 257–8, 261, 263–6
and Eric the Skull 263–4, 266
initiation ceremony 263–5
members 258
and murder of Julia Wallace case 262–3
regulations on writing detective fiction 258–60
detection game 258–61
Detective Branch (Metropolitan Police) 158, 159
boosting of image of by Dickens 85, 159
damage done to standing of 159
establishment of 41, 85
detective fever 156–61
detective fiction
and class 271
criticism of 274–5
depiction of servants in 270–1
Detection Club regulations on writing 258–60
Golden Age of 167, 223–33, 269
snobbery with violence 267–77
Dickens, Charles 49, 79–90, 108n, 119, 214–15
articles on the Metropolitan Police in Household Words 84–6
Bleak House 3, 89, 119–20
and Detective Branch 85, 159
fascination with crime 80
friendship with Collins 168
interest in social justice 84–5
‘The Modern Science of Thief-Taking’ 85
Oliver Twist 82–3, 84
‘On Duty with Inspector Field’ 87–9
opposition to public hangings 79–80, 120–2, 123
tour of St Giles 87–9
witnesses hanging of Maria Manning 79, 119, 120
divorce 159
Doren Stern, Philip Van 279
education 65
Elstree Murder (1823) 46–51
Elstree
Murder Tour 48–50
Enlightenment 55
Esdaile, Mrs 175–6
Faber, Michel
The Crimson Petal and the White 88n
Family Oracle of Health, The 15
‘Fancy, The’ 46
female detectives 4, 211–19
fictional 211–18
female poisoners 140–50
Field, Inspector 86, 86–9, 90, 132, 158
Fielding, Henry 35, 36
An Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers 35
Fielding, Sir John 36
fingerprints 206–7
First World War 227, 267
Flanders, Judith 19, 35–6, 82, 144, 180-1, 188n, 193
Fleming, Captain Oswald 254–5
footprints 208
forensic science/scientists 195, 197–8
and Bell 201
and Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes 199–204
and criminal records 205–6
and fingerprints 206
and Sûreté (French Security Brigade) 208
Forrester, Andrew 215
The Female Detective 212, 215, 217
Forshaw, Barry 243
franchise, extension of 39
French Security Brigade (Sûreté) 207, 208
Gammon, Vic 96
Gatrell, V.A.C. 65, 123
Gielgud, Val and Marvell, Holt
Death at Broadcasting House 269
Gladden, Mrs 217, 218
Gothic novel 69–71
Graves, Caroline 173–4
Great Reform Act (1832) 38
Greene, Graham 5, 273, 282–3
Brighton Rock 282
Grimwood, Eliza 83–4
Gully, Dr James 146–7, 148, 149
Hacque, Azizul 206
Haill, Cathy 104
Hammett, Dashiell 280
hangings, public 2, 77, 118–19
decline 58, 65, 122–3
Dickens’ opposition to 79–80, 120–2, 123
as entertainment 118–19
last (1868) 124
of Maria Manning 3, 79, 118–19
Newgate as site of 80
hard-boiled detective 279–80
Harriott, John 36
Hartman, Mary 150
Hays Code 286
Hayward, W.S. 215
The Revelations of a Lady Detective 215, 216–17
Henry, Edward 206
Herapath, William 136, 137, 201
Himmler, Heinrich 210
Hitchcock, Alfred 283–7
The Lodger, A Story of the London Fog 286–7
Murder! 285
Hitchen, Charles 34
Holmes, Sherlock (fictional detective) 4–5, 138, 194–5, 207, 208, 225–7
first appearance 194
incarnation on TV screen 292
and Jack the Ripper 194
killed off and brought back from dead 224–5
relationship with Watson 204–5
in A Study in Scarlet 195, 199–201, 202–3
see also Conan Doyle, Arthur
Hopley, Susan (fictional female detective) 212–14
Hornung, E.W. 227
Horton, Charles 31–2
Household Words 85, 129
Hubbard, William 83, 84
Ingatestone Hall (Essex) 182
interior decoration 98–9
It’s A Wonderful Life (film) 279
Jack the Ripper 61, 187–8, 189, 192–5, 286, 292
James, P.D. 26–7, 37, 230, 231, 243, 252, 275–6
Jekyll and Hyde 188–923
Jews 272
Jewsbury, Geraldine 167
Johnson, Kathryn 215
Judgement of Death Act (1823) 122
Kent, Constance 152–3, 154–5, 154, 158
Kent family 151–8
Killing, The (TV series) 292
Kitchin, C.H.B. 294
Knox, Monsignor Ronald 258, 274
Lacassagne, Alexandre 204
Lamb, Lady Caroline 73
L’Angelier, Pierre Émile 140–2
laudanum 11
Lees, William 67–8
libraries 229
Lindop, Grevel 16
literacy, rise of 64–5, 77
Lives of the Most Notorious Highwaymen, Footpads, Etc 71
Lloyd, Edward 72
Lord Chamberlain 110–11
Macaulay, Thomas Babington 51
McCall Smith, Alexander 211–12
MacGuffin 285–6
McWhirter, Alex 99
Madame Rachel 174–6
Madame Tussauds
Chamber of Horrors 3, 4, 57–8, 60–1, 120
educational element to 59–60
establishment of in Baker Street 58
Maria Manning waxwork 120, 121
modellers at 61
Manning, Frederick 66, 79, 113–20, 127
Manning, Maria 66, 113–20, 127
basing of Hortense character in Bleak House on 89, 119–20
execution of 3, 79, 118–20
Madame Tussaud waxwork of 120, 121
Mansel, Henry 164
Mansfield, Richard 189–92, 193
Marlowe, Philip (fictional detective) 280–1
Marr, Timothy and Celia 20, 23–5, 27
marriage 159
Married Women’s Property Act (1870) 147
Marsh, James 129
Marsh, Ngaio 229, 231–3, 245, 264
A Man Lay Dead 231
A Surfeit of Lampreys 271
Marsh Test 129, 134
Marten, Maria 3, 91–101, 103–5, 109–10, 127
Matrimonial Causes Act 159–60
Maxwell, Gordon S. 50
Maxwell, John 86, 181, 182
Mayhem Parva 268, 273, 276
Mayhew, Henry 66, 72, 74, 87
Medical Gentlemen 135–7
melodrama 106–11, 163
mementos, murder 3, 99–101
Metropolitan Police 116
creation of 37–8
Crime Museum 209–10
and Detective Branch see Detective Branch
establishment of Fingerprint Bureau 206–7
organisation of 39
patrol of ‘Peelers’ 39–40
training museum 207
uniform 40
writing of articles on by Dickens 84–5
middle-class murderers 4–5, 128–38
Milne, A. A. 258, 260
Morland, Catherine 70
mortuary, Victorian 197
‘Murder of Maria Marten, The’ (ballad) 95–7
murder rate 127–8, 223
murder reporting 28 see also broadsides
Mysteries of the Courts of London, The 82
New Yorker 274
Newgate Calendar 80, 82
Newgate Novels 80–2, 83, 163
Newgate Prison 80, 81
nightwatchmen 33
Nilsen, Dennis 210
O’Connor, Joseph 114–15
Oliver Twist (play) 110
Olney, George 31
opium/opium-eating 10–12, 12, 167–8
Orczy, Baroness 258
Orwell, George 289–90
Animal Farm 289
‘Decline of the English Murder’ 1, 2, 289–91
Palmer, Dr William 130–7, 131, 138, 199, 209, 291
Paschall, Mrs (fictional female detective) 217, 218
patterer 66–7, 95
Pearcey, Eleanor 58–9
Peel, Sir Robert 38, 39
Peelers 38, 39–41 see also Metropolitan Police
peepshow 103–4
Penny Bloods 70–3, 84
Penny Dreadfuls 74, 180–1
Penny Magazine 65
Perceval, Spencer 23, 36–7
Peterloo Massacre (1919) 40
phrenology 60–1, 94, 138, 143
Pilbeam, Pamela 55, 58
Pinkerton agency 280
Poirot, Hercule (fictional detective) 159, 227, 241–2, 271, 292
poisoning/poisoners 129–
38
and antimony 148, 149
and arsenic 128–9, 134, 142
female 140–50
and Florence Bravo 146–9, 147, 150
and Madeleine Smith 140–6, 143, 149, 150
and Mary Ann Cotton 130
and Palmer 130–7
and strychnine 133, 135
Police Gazette 39
police/policing
and Bow Street Runners 35
early forms of 31–5
seen as an attractive career 40–1
Thames Police 20, 25, 31–2, 36
see also Metropolitan
Police Polstead 91–2
Prevention of Crimes Act (1871) 205
Prisoners’ Property Act 209
Pritchard, Mathew 240–1
Probert, William 47, 48
pulp magazines 279
Punch 18, 66, 108, 114
puppet show 103–6
Rachel, Madame 174–6
Radcliffe, Ann 69–70
The Mysteries of Udolpho 69
Raffles (fictional gentleman thief) 226–7
Ramotswe, Mma Precious (female fictional detective) 211
Rappaport, Helen 175, 176
Ratcliffe Highway Murders (1811) 2, 4, 18, 19–29, 31–2, 36–7, 43–4, 63, 127
Red Barn murder (1828) 91–101, 100, 103–5
dramatic versions of 106–7, 109
puppet show 103–6
Resurrection Men 198
Ricardo, Alexander 146
Ripley, Mike 273–4
Ripper Street (tv series) 292
Road Hill House murder (1860) 151–7, 158–9, 163, 166–7
Robinson, John 209–10
Romantic movement 46
Rubenstein, William D. 272
Rudd, Martha 173, 174
Ruddick, James 148, 149
Ruth Martin, the Fatal Dreamer 107
St Bartholomew’s Fair 100, 103
St Giles area (London) 87–9
Sala, George Augustus 72–3, 87
Sayers, Dorothy L. 6, 224, 230, 238, 245–56, 247, 258, 274, 275–7
background and career 246–8
character 245–6
and Detection Club 258, 263, 264, 265
estate 229
Gaudy Night 177, 247, 253–4
and Lord Peter Wimsey character 253, 349–50
and murder of Julia Wallace case 262
murder methods in novels 252–3
Murder Must Advertise 248–9
The Nine Tailors 246, 270, 275
personal life and relationships 233, 251–2, 254–5
public denial of her son 252, 255
Strong Poison 251, 253
view of the thriller 273
Whose Body? 349
writing for radio 255
Scene of Crimes Officer (SOCO) 203
Schalch, Johann 54–5
Scotland Yard see Metropolitan Police
Scott, Sir Walter 49
‘sensation novel’ 163–77, 287, 288
