All That is Wicked - The 'Victorian Hannibal Lecter' and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind

''A master-class in bringing history to life, in all its creepy, twisted glory'' - Karen Kilgariff, co-host of My Favorite Murder podcast''Every true crime fan will be riveted by Kate''s master story-telling of this unforgettable tale'' - Paul Holes, author of Unmasked: Crime Scenes, Cold Cases and My Hunt for the Golden State Killer The thrilling story of Edward Rulloff - a serial murderer who was called ''too intelligent to be killed'' - and the array of 19th-century investigators who were convinced his brain held the key to finally understanding the criminal mind. Rulloff was a brilliant yet utterly amoral murderer - some have called him a ''Victorian-era Hannibal Lecter'' - whose crimes spanned decades, but by 1871 he was captured, chained in a cell - a psychopath holding court while curious 19th-century ''mindhunters'' got to work.From alienists (early psychiatrists who tried to analyse the source of his madness) to neurologists (who wanted to dissect his brain) to phrenologists (