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The murder of Mr. Grebell

madness and civility in an English town

by Paul Kléber Monod, Paul Kleber Monod, Paul Kléber Monod

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On a winter night in 1743, a local magistrate was stabbed to death in the churchyard of Rye by an angry butcher. Why did this gruesome crime happen? What does it reveal about the political economic, and cultural patterns that existed in this small English port town?

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