Much Darker Days
                                            
                            By Andrew Lang
                            
                                2 Oct, 2019                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        A 'shilling shocker' from the late 19th century, a macabre novel of murder and its consequences, originally published as a Christmas Annual for adults and now reissued complete with a hilarious parody by satirist Andrew Lang released the same Christm
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                                                A 'shilling shocker' from the late 19th century, a macabre novel of murder and its consequences, originally published as a Christmas Annual for adults and now reissued complete with a hilarious parody by satirist Andrew Lang released the same Christmas. In the eyes of the law, murder is murder. When Dr. North discovers that his beloved Philippa - surely the most beautiful murderess whoever crossed the pages of fiction - has killed her abusive husband, he must decide whether to turn her in or take the law into his own hands.  Less