A Sentimental Murder: Love and Madness in the Eighteenth Century by John Brewer

A Sentimental Murder: Love and Madness in the Eighteenth Century

John Brewer

352 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history true crime dark slow-paced
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One April evening in 1779, Martha Ray, the pretty mistress of a famous aristocrat, was shot dead at point-blank range by a young clergyman who then attempted to take his own life. Instead he was arrested, tried and hanged. In this fascinating new ...

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