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A Sentimental Murder: Love And Madness In The Eighteenth Century,New University of California Press Daphne GuinnessOne April Evening In 1779, Martha Ray, The Pretty Mistress Of A Famous Aristocrat, Was Shot Dead At Pointblank Range By A Young Clergyman Who Then Attempted To Take His Own Life. Instead He Was Arrested, Tried And Hanged. In This Fascinating New Book, John Brewer, A Leading Historian Of Eighteenthcentury England, Asks What This Peculiar Little Story Was All About. Then As Now, Crimes Of Passion Were Not Uncommon, And The Story Had The Hallmarks Of A