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Trials of Passion: Crimes in the Name of Love and Madness Book

Trials of Passion This book journeys into the heart of dark passions and the crimes they impel. When passion is in the picture, what is criminal, what sane, what mad or simply bad? Brighton, 1870: A well-respected spinster infuses chocolate creams with strychnine in order to murder her lover's wife. Paris, 1880: A popular performer stalks her betraying lover through the streets of the city for weeks and finally takes aim. New York, 1906: A millionaire shoots dead a prominent architect in full view of a theatre audience. Through court and asylum records, letters and newspaper accounts, this book brings to life a period when the psychiatric professions were consolidating their ...Read More

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  • Blackwell

    Using sensational public trials, in America, Britain and France, this book takes madness and passion into the courts and puts them on trial. This book journeys into the heart of dark passions and the crimes they impel. When passion is in the...

  • 184408874X
  • 9781844088744
  • Lisa Appignanesi
  • 3 April 2014
  • Virago
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 448
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