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Article: Murder is no longer a man's world.(Features)
- Article from:
- The Journal (Newcastle, England)
- Article date:
- January 27, 2004
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Byline: By Chaz Brenchley
We may abhor crime but we can't get enough of it. Author Chaz Brenchley investigates the scene of Bloody Murder, a crime writing season at Newcastle's venerable `Lit & Phil'
Never believe the genteel hush and the private, innocent appeal of all those books; libraries are dangerous places.
They've always had an intimate association with violence and death, from the burning of the Royal Library in Alexandria to the disgraced English gentlemen who would be invited to step into the library to do the honourable thing with a ...