Ebook: Blood & ivy: the 1849 murder that scandalized Harvard

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.;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.