Melancholy Madness: A Coroner s Casebook (Paperback)

Bizarre tales of murder and investigation in the drumlins valleys and towns of Monaghan in the nineteenth century based upon a casebook just recently discovered that has never been lodged in any archive anywhere. This is NEW information and highlights such cases as: The Illigitimate Half-Sisters Of Oscar Wilde - Emily and Mary Wilde died tragically at Drumaconner House while dancing by the fire - their deaths are kept quiet so as not to shame Sir William Wilde. The Legend Of The Sleepwalking Nun - Sister Mary Keogh is discovered drowned in the Convent lake near the Crannog - to this day local legend tells the story of her death.