True Crime: The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon WinchesterHarperPerennial, 1998, 1999, 242 pgs. The late 1800s. An elusive Dr W. C. Minor sends in regular submissions to the team at Oxford University who are collating entries for the most ambitious record of the…