The Assassination of Thomas D’Arcy McGee: A Murder Mystery for the Record Books
In a 300-word early morning dispatch George Gregg, Ottawa correspondent of the Toronto Leader, described what happened next: “At half-past two o’clock this morning Hon. T. D. McGee was shot dead by an unknown assassin, just as he was entering the door of his lodging house. The ball passed through his head and lodged in the door which he was just opening … The body, as I write, is still prostrate on the pavement, hardly yet cold in death.”
Funny, determined, and “schooled in the details of information of every class of crime,” John Wilson Murray in 1875 starting hunting lawbreakers as the provincial detective of Ontario
Lorna appeared on a true crime panel at FanExpo in Toronto in August. 
