TY - BOOK AU - Winchester, Simon. TI - The surgeon of Crowthorne: : a tale of murder, madness and the love of words SN - 0670878626 U1 - 924.21 PY - 1998/// CY - Ringwood, Vic. PB - Viking KW - Minor, William Chester KW - Murray, James Augustus Henry, Sir, 1837-1915 Friends and associates KW - Psychiatric hospital patients--Great Britain--Biography KW - Lexicographers--Great Britain--Biography KW - Murderers--Biography KW - English language--Lexicography KW - United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Veterans--Biography N1 - Biography of one of the volunteers who assisted with the making of the Oxford English Dictionary; he turned out to be W.C. Miner, an eccentric millionaire American Civil War surgeon who became mad and ended up in Broadmoor Asylum; Published in the U.S. as: The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity and the making of the Oxford English Dictionary ER -