The Homes of Ian Brady

I’ve been reading books written about famous crimes. The ‘new’ angle is that they are old books written at the time the crimes were committed. So my first example is Emlyn Williams’s book: Beyond Belief, about the moors murders. It was published in 1967 and I’m reading the first edition from the London Library in St. James’s Square. It is mercifully out of print. My problem with it is that Williams was an outlandish character and his written style is novelistic in places. So not only I am I grappling with the comparatively recent movement to give more prominence to victims than murderers (which I support), but now…