The wicked boy was a 13 year old lower class youngster who killed his mother in 1895 in London, England. An outrageous crime that gripped the local populace and furnished the local tabloids with an opportunity to rail against penny dreadful reading material, the boy was soon convicted but sent to Broadmoor asylum for the criminally insane. An excellent book and more than just true crime, it‘s a tale of redemption. Five stars