title: Shooting Victoria: Madness, Mayhem, and the Rebirth of the British Monarchy
author:  Paul Thomas Murphy 
description: I would like to have been taught by him. Hes the most free-spirited of scholars. Shooting Victoria rambles uninhibitedly and learnedly through 19th-century history into literature, penology, constitutional theory and even ballistics, stimulating highly topical thoughts along the way.  John Sutherland (The New York Times Book Review)<br /><br />Murphy recounts in a fresh, lively narrative how these deluded subjects managed to channel their mental instability or optimistic navet into assassination attempts.  Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW<br /><br />In this delightful book, Murphy argues that the assassination attempts on the queen during her nearly sixty-four-year reign cemented her popularity, helping her create the modern monarchy.  The Christian Science Monitor<br /><br />The pages slip by in this well-written new take on Victoria and her times. An enlightening study of Queen Victoria and her reign.  Kirkus Reviews, STARRED REVIEW
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  I like my women like I like my whiskey: embroiled in a magical war
  
  
  Ten years ago I fought for the Witch Queen of London in a mystical showdown
  against a King Arthur wannabe with a shaved head and a shotgun. Back then, the
  law did for him before he could do for us.
  
  
  I don’t think we’ll get that lucky again.
  
  
  As if the mother of all wizard battles wasn’t bad enough, fate or destiny or a
  god with a really messed-up sense of humor has dropped a weapon that could
  rewrite the universe right into the middle of London, and anybody with half a
  sniff of arcane power has rocked up to stake their claim on it. Last time this
  happened, the city went to pieces. This time, it might just go to Hell.
  
  
  Also, still dating a vampire. Still got an alpha werewolf trying to get in my
  pants. Still sharing a flat with a woman made of animated marble—only now
  apparently there are two of her. But you know what they say: the more things
  change, the more they stay the same crap that’s b