New Arrival The Mummy in the Cupboard Murder: Forensic Science, Magic and the Gothic Imagination

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The Mummy in the Cupboard Murder: Forensic Science, Magic and the Gothic Imagination

By Lizzie Seal
New Arrival Routledge June 2026

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ISBN-13
9781032853192
Publisher
Routledge
Publication
June 2026
Format
Paperback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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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 locked cupboard of the house in 1960. The book applies Gothic criminology to an empirical historical example, considers the interchange between fact and fiction, traces developments in mid twentieth-century forensic pathology, and contributes to historical criminology by extending this approach’s conceptual base.

The Mummy in the Cupboard Murder is ideal for students and scholars of cultural criminology, crime and media, twentieth-century British history, and crime history, as well as those with an interest in the Gothic.

Table of Contents

Prologue
Chapter 1: Introduction: Murder and the Gothic Imagination
Chapter 2: The Mummified Corpse
Chapter 3: The Multiple Murderer
Chapter 4: The Gothic Double
Chapter 5: The Sensation by the Sea.
Chapter 6: The Truth Seekers
Chapter 7: Afterlife
Epilogue
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