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

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

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

Name: The Mummy in the Cupboard Murder: Forensic Science, Magic and the Gothic Imagination
Brand: Routledge
SKU: 9781032853192
Price: 528.65 HKD
Availability: InStock
Author: Lizzie Seal
ISBN: 9781032853192

By Lizzie Seal

New Arrival Routledge June 2026

Specifications

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

Details

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.

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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