What are you reading now?

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David, you are a better person than I. I tried reading The Judicial Murder of Mary Surratt years ago and almost gagged on the Victorian prose! Back then, however, that book and Guy Moore's The Case of Mary Surratt and Helen Jones Campbell's frustrating Case For Mrs. Surratt were about all there was devoted strictly to the lady. Moore's was the best IMO.

Guy Moore is still alive and just renewed his membership in the Surratt Society. I don't have the book in front of me, but I believe that it was published about 1961. It's one of those cases where he chose the subject of Mary Surratt as his master's thesis - at the urging of his wife, who was convinced of Mary's innocence - and the thesis turned into a book. Tim Good's Eyewitness...accounts mentioned in another thread ended up being published the same way.

BTW: Moore ended up considering the Surratt case from both sides, so his wife did not have complete literary control! It was still sympathetic to the lady.