The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder,Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary

Contents

Preface

Chapter One Saturday Night in Lambeth Marsh

Chapter Two The Man Who Taught Latin to Cattle

Chapter Three The Madness of War

Chapter Four Gathering Earth’s Daughters

Chapter Five The Big Dictionary Conceived

Chapter Six The Scholar in Cell Block 2

Chapter Seven Entering the Lists

Chapter Eight Annulated, art, brick-tea, buckwheat

Chapter Nine The Meeting of Minds

Chapter Ten The Unkindest Cut

Chapter Eleven Then Only the Monuments

Chapter Twelve Postscript

Author’s Note

Acknowledgements

Suggestions for Further Reading