The rise and fall of a real-life Flashman
Biography/crime
The Scoundrel Harry Larkyns
Rebecca Gowers (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £20)
ON October 17, 1874, a man was shot dead at point-blank range in a rooming house at the Yellow Jacket Mine near Calistoga, in northern California. A jury later acquitted the killer, Eadweard Muybridge, on the grounds that the victim had been conducting an affair with Muybridge’s wife, Flora. Muybridge went back to his career in photography
