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The surgeon of Crowthorne : a tale of murder, madness and the love of words

by Simon Winchester

An account of the relationship between the editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and one of its most prolific contributors, Dr W.C. Minor, an American surgeon imprisoned in Broadmoor Asylum for murder.

Accession 25820 ISBN 0670878626 Publisher Viking
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