"On November 23rd of 1849, in the heart of Boston, one of the city?s richest men simply vanished. Dr. George Parkman, a Brahmin 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 harbor, and offered hefty rewards as leads put the elusive Dr. Parkman at sea or hiding in Manhattan. But one Harvard janitor held a much darker suspicion: that their ruthless...