Murder – A Dying Art? George Orwell, Raymond Chandler, and the ...

Murder – A Dying Art? George Orwell, Raymond Chandler, and the Mysterious Death of English Crime Writing David Rudrum, University of Huddersfield In February 1946, the pages of Tribune were enlivened with a brief but witty piece by George Orwell, entitled “The Decline of the English Murder”. It began like this: ................
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