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The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester is a well researched and written in an easy readable style, the book romps along. I loved this book it was easy to read and well researched. The friendship between Dr. William Minor and James Murray was well recorded and the fact that Minor was a murderer and Murray the compiler of the Oxford English Dictionary made for interesting reading. I also learned from Winchester's little asides like that fact that Ezra Pound had been incarcerated in the same mental institution as Minor. A book well worth reading. Only bad point is I had to reach for a dictionary quite often but that is no bad thing.