Broadmoor Revealed: Victorian Crime and the Lunatic Asylum

Broadmoor Revealed: Victorian Crime and the Lunatic Asylum

Mark Stevens

Mark Stevens

Broadmoor Revealed takes the reader on a journey round Victorian England’s Criminal Lunatic Asylum. Recounting personal stories from where true crime meets mental illness, the book takes in gunshot at Queen Victoria and poison in Brighton, as well as the artist Richard Dadd and lexicographer William Chester Minor. A hospital, not a prison: tales of insanity, murder and more.
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Trapline

Trapline

Mark Stevens

Mark Stevens

Intrigue and murder in the Rocky Mountains

A badly chewed-up corpse high in the Flat Tops Wilderness Area leaves Colorado hunting guide Allison Coil mystified and wary. Obvious signs suggest the dead man is the victim of a mountain lion attack, but Allison's wilderness-savvy bones scream otherwise. A few miles away and a few thousand feet lower in downtown Glenwood Springs, a controversial candidate for U.S. Senate is shot during a campaign stop as newspaper reporter Duncan Bloom watches from a few feet away, dodging the long-range gunfire. Trapline follows Coil and Bloom as their investigations into the corpse and the shooting expose greed, hatred, and the dark depths of human indifference.
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