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darchildre) wrote2013-03-11 09:54 am
darchildre) wrote2013-03-11 09:54 am
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Yesterday, I watched the first couple episode of Ripper Street. Which is a police procedural set in Victorian London, in Whitechapel, a few months after the last of the Ripper murders, during which people are Inventing Forensics. So, y'know, that's right up my alley.
Now, of course, my brain being what it is, I kinda want some sort of historical true crime about Inventing Forensics and the Evolution of Policing. And, since there is a part of my brain that is still stuck on Les Miserables*, I am horribly tempted to try to read Vidocq.
I am pretty sure that is a bad idea.
*Which, yes, I still haven't finished. Look, Javert died and I told myself that I got to take a break to digest that, and then a week or so passed and I realized that I was stuck with no one but Valjean in full-on martyr mode, Cosette, and Marius Pontmercy, King of Goobers. I have not been able to face it yet.
I am going to finish the damn book, though. Eventually.
Now, of course, my brain being what it is, I kinda want some sort of historical true crime about Inventing Forensics and the Evolution of Policing. And, since there is a part of my brain that is still stuck on Les Miserables*, I am horribly tempted to try to read Vidocq.
I am pretty sure that is a bad idea.
*Which, yes, I still haven't finished. Look, Javert died and I told myself that I got to take a break to digest that, and then a week or so passed and I realized that I was stuck with no one but Valjean in full-on martyr mode, Cosette, and Marius Pontmercy, King of Goobers. I have not been able to face it yet.
I am going to finish the damn book, though. Eventually.