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Blood & Ivy

By: Paul Collins
Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
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A delectable true-crime story of scandal and murder at America's most celebrated university

On November 23, 1849, in the heart of Boston, one of the city's richest men 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 - some leads put Parkman at sea or in Manhattan - but a Harvard janitor held a much darker suspicion: that their ruthless benefactor had never even 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.

©2018 Paul Collins (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
History Murder True Crime Forensics City Medical education Boston
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I never knew about this story.

A very well researched story, well narrated. Adding it to my collection of 19th century true crime, as I am sure I will listen to it again.

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one Harvard professor murders another

Good reading. There's never any doubt of the perpetrator, but the period detail is fascinating. I thoroughly recommend this book.

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Irritated by wandering narrative!

Didn't get very far into this book. I found it hard to distinguish characters and players. Wanted a beginning , a middle and an end but couldn't make it!

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