Blood & ivy : the 1849 murder that scandalized Harvard

Collins, Paul 1969- (author.).

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.

Item details

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

Contents / Notes

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.