Trials of Passion

This book journeys into the heart of dark passions and the crimes they impel. When passion is in the picture, what is criminal, what sane, what mad or simply bad?

Brighton, 1870: A well-respected spinster infuses chocolate creams with strychnine in order to murder her lover''s wife.

Paris, 1880: A popular performer stalks her betraying lover through the streets of the city for weeks and finally take...