Blood & ivy : the 1849 murder that scandalized Harvard
Record details
- ISBN: 0393245160
- ISBN: 9780393245165
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Physical Description:
xix, 347 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2018]
- Copyright: ©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. |
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Subject: | Murder Massachusetts Boston Case studies Harvard University History 19th century Webster, John White 1793-1850 Parkman, George 1790-1849 |
Genre: | Case studies. True crime stories. |
Available copies
- 16 of 16 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Iredell County Public Library.
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- 0 current holds with 16 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Statesville Main Library | 364.152309 COL (Text) | 33114018039438 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |