The book begins with the story of the first meeting of
Murray and Minor, an event which has been romanticised
into a fictional account which has Murray arriving at
Broadmoor asylum unaware that the man he is visiting is
a patient there and mistaking the governor for Dr Minor.
(The truth is that whilst Murray did originally think that Dr
Minor was a member of staff at the asylum rather than an
inmate, he had been told Minor’s story by a visiting
American librarian before he first went to Broadmoor to
meet him.)
Minor had bee