Contents
Front end paper: Parkman Genealogy
Back end paper: Webster Genealogy
Acknowledgments
Persons of Interest
Authors’ Eye
Chapter I: Into Thin and Rarefied Air
Chapter II: Miasma below the Hill
Chapter III: Dreaded Dissections
Chapter IV: Antecedents to Murder
Chapter V: Arrest
Chapter VI: Somebody is Lying
Chapter VII: Forensics in ‘49
Chapter VIII: Leverett Street Lockup
Chapter IX: Evidence
Chapter X: Trial
Chapter XI: Petitions, Pleas and Pardons
Chapter XII: "Poor Dr. Webster Was Hung Yesterday"
Chapter XIII: Awaiting the Swedish Nightingale
Court Transcript
The Confession
Reading List
Index