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Blood & ivy : the 1849 murder that scandalized Harvard / Paul Collins.

Blood and ivy (other title)

Summary:

Traces the scandalous murder of a Harvard Medical School graduate and the ensuing trial that riveted mid-nineteenth-century America, exploring how the case established important precedents in medical forensics and the definition of reasonable doubt.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780393245165
  • ISBN: 0393245160
  • Physical Description: xix, 347 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2018]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pgs. 325-335) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
I: Scenes of the crime. The way into Harvard ; On pins and crowbars ; The skeleton box ; The great world goes clanging on -- II: The victim. A bad business ; A gentleman unknown ; The yellow envelope ; Some aberration of mind -- III: The suspect. Thanksgiving by the fire ; The final reward ; Wickedness takes eleven ; "I shal be kiled" -- IV: The accused. Pistols drawn ; A ruined man ; Old Grimes is dead ; A lifetime of uprightness -- V: The trial. In the dead house ; Good men and true ; The catalog of bones ; Mesmeric revelation -- VI: The verdict. Twelve men in Massachusetts ; Law manufactured for the occasion ; A man in error ; Closing hours.
Subject:
Parkman, George, 1790-1849.
Webster, John White, 1793-1850.
Harvard University > History > 19th century.
Murder > Massachusetts > Boston > Case studies.
Genre:
True crime stories.
Case studies.

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