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On 23 November 1849, in the heart of Boston, one of the city's richest men vanished. Dr. George Parkman, who owned much of Boston's West End, was last seen that afternoon visiting his alma mater, Harvard Medical School. Police scoured city tenements and the harbour but a Harvard janitor held a much darker suspicion: that their ruthless benefactor had not left the Medical School building. His shocking discovery engulfed America in one of its most infamous trials, The Commonwealth of Massachusetts vs. John White Webster, Harvard's professor of chemistry. A baffling case of red herrings, grave robbing and dismemberment; it became a landmark in the use of medical forensics. Rich in characters and atmosphere, Blood & Ivy explores the fatal entanglement of new science and old money in one of America's greatest murder mysteries.
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Mesmerizing....A fine mixture of true crime, historical exposition, and class conflict in mid-19th-century American history.
This page-turning popular history of the life and crimes of a Harvard professor in the 1840s will be appreciated by fans of true crime and the history of criminal law.
Tells the story of one of the most sensational crimes of 19th century America. Well-researched and beautifully written, his book is filled with Dickensian characters....Collins knows how to build suspense.
[A] lively exposé.--Marilyn Stasio
Ushers readers into...the incestuously tight world of Brahmin Boston.
A vivid true-crime tale from a fascinating bygone era.
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This page-turning popular history of the life and crimes of a Harvard professor in the 1840s will be appreciated by fans of true crime and the history of criminal law.
Tells the story of one of the most sensational crimes of 19th century America. Well-researched and beautifully written, his book is filled with Dickensian characters....Collins knows how to build suspense.
[A] lively exposé.--Marilyn Stasio
Ushers readers into...the incestuously tight world of Brahmin Boston.
A vivid true-crime tale from a fascinating bygone era.
Paul Collins is the author of nine books of nonfiction. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and chair of the English Department at Portland State University.
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- PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 0393245160
- ISBN 13 9780393245165
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