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The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer
by Kate Summerscale
This isn't so much a crime mystery, since the trial was all rather cut and dried. It is more of a psychological investigation into Robert Coombes, and so book doesn't end with the verdict, but rather follows him through his sentence, rehabilitation and the rest of his life. The fact that he didn't become a violent adult speaks well for the treatment he received at Broadmoor. Not all Victorian psychiatric care was brutal.