Tudor True Crime
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Death of the True Crime Craze
Shakespeare's play is called the yorkshire tragedy. He has been canvassed as one of the authors, not least because his name appears on the title page. Neither of them really count quite as true crime, even though they're based on an actual criminal case. The sortof death of the true crime craze comes when it sort of overreaches itself. It tries to deal with royal murders or child murders, and it becomes too much. But we still enjoy what we seem to keep coming back to. And this may be something that you need to think on for a longer time before you go out again.
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