F. Tennyson Jesse created a way of telling crime stories that still influences us today.

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Books mentioned and sources consulted: Books mentioned:

— Murder and Its Motives by F. Tennyson Jesse

— "The Mask" by F. Tennyson Jesse

— The Sword of Deborah by F. Tennyson Jesse

— The Trial of Madeleine Smith by F. Tennyson Jesse

— The Trial of Rattenbury and Stoner by F. Tennyson Jesse

— A Pin To See The Peepshow by F. Tennyson Jesse

— Comments on Cain by F. Tennyson Jesse

— Crime Writing in Interwar Britain by Victoria Stewart

— A Portrait of Fryn by Joanna Colenbrander

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