Arsenic and Clam Chowder : Murder in Gilded Age New York.
Recounts the sensational 1896 murder trial of Mary Alice Livingston, who was accused of murdering her mother with an arsenic-laced pail of clam chowder and faced the possibility of becoming the first woman to be executed in New York's new-fangled electric chair.
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505 | 0 | |a Intro -- Arsenic and Clam Chowder Murder in Gilded Age New York -- Contents -- CHAPTER ONE: The Death of Evelina Bliss -- CHAPTER TWO: The New York World -- CHAPTER THREE: Mary Alice Almont of the New York Livingstons -- CHAPTER FOUR: Promises Breached -- CHAPTER FIVE: In the Tombs -- CHAPTER SIX: Twelve Good Men and True -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Opening of the People's Case -- CHAPTER EIGHT: The People Rest -- CHAPTER NINE: The Defense -- CHAPTER TEN: Decision -- CHAPTER ELEVEN: Afterwards -- CHAPTER TWELVE: Reasonable Doubt and Judicial Murder -- Acknowledgements -- Sources -- Bibliography -- Index. | |
520 | |a Recounts the sensational 1896 murder trial of Mary Alice Livingston, who was accused of murdering her mother with an arsenic-laced pail of clam chowder and faced the possibility of becoming the first woman to be executed in New York's new-fangled electric chair. | ||
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