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Did The Doctors Do It?

Blair Worden UNNATURAL MURDER: POISON AT THE COURT OF JAMES I by Anne Somerset Weidenfeld, £20, pp. 434 T he death of Sir Thomas Overbury, apparently from poison, in the Tower......

He Was A Camera

Patrick Skene Catling THE PARDON OF SAINT ANNE by William Palmer Cape, £9.99, pp. 252 R eality may seem more manageable in still, two-dimensional slices. Like Isher- wood in......