Like Death at the Priory, The Invention of Murder is not a shocking book that is strange in our times. Some of the murder cases are much more gruesome than murders in our society. Though these horrible murders are not extremely shocking, the way the public and the police handle these crimes is a shock. The Invention of Murder follows the growth of a police force in England. Often times the novel shows how ineffective the police were at communicating with other divisions. Flanders gives an example case where the murderer escaped and for days the police were searching for him. Certain divisions would pick up a lead but it was out of their district so they would just drop the lead instead of communicating it to the other division. Also, the trials
