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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824328803321

Autore

Adler Jeanne Winston <1946->

Titolo

The affair of the veiled murderess : an antebellum scandal and mystery / / Jeanne Winston Adler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, N.Y., : Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press, c2011

ISBN

1-4384-3549-5

1-4416-8887-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (327 p.)

Collana

Excelsior Editions

Disciplina

364.152/3092

Soggetti

Murder - New York (State) - Troy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- THE AFFAIR OF THE VEILED MURDERESS -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION:TROY, NEW YORK, 1853 -- PART ONE. HENRIETTA ROBINSON -- 1. RIVER STREET -- 2. MAY 25 -- 3. THE NEW PRISONER -- PART TWO. JOHN C. MATHERBIRTH (1813)-SPRING 1853 -- 4. INTRODUCING JOHN C. MATHER -- 5. RISE -- 6. TROUBLE -- PART THREE. PRETRIALJUNE 1853-APRIL 1854 -- 7. CONTAGION -- 8. LONG HOT SUMMER INTO FALL -- 9. LIMBO TIME -- PART FOUR. TRIALMAY 1854 -- 10. DAY ONE-OFFICERS OF THE COURT -- 11. DAY TWO-THE DOCTORS -- 12. DAY THREE-THE VEIL -- 13. DAY FOUR-BOMBSHELL -- 14. DAY FIVE-SOME ANTEBELLUM LORE -- 15. DAY SIX-VERDICT -- PART FIVE. THE VEILED MURDERESS: JUNE 1854-AUGUST 1855 -- 16. SETTLED BUT NOT SETTLED -- 17. BREAKING OF THE STORM -- 18. MORE MATHER -- 19. TRENDS -- 20. CHARLOTTE WOOD -- 21. LIVELY SEASON -- 22. "ADMIRAL PAGNUM'S DAUGHTER" -- 23. ANGEL OF MERCY -- 24. DEPARTURE -- PART SIX. IRISH ANSWER: 1851 AND THE DEEPER PAST -- 25. SUSAN GAYNOR -- 26. IMMIGRANTS AND OTHERS -- PART SEVEN. LATER LIFE AND LEGEND: SEPTEMBER 1855-MAY 1905 -- 27. THE SING SING YEARS -- 28. AUBURN -- 29. CHARLOTTE DOOLITTLE NORRIS -- 30. FINALE -- PART EIGHT. CONCLUSION -- 31. WHAT REALLY HAPPENED -- APPENDIX I. THE WOOD DAUGHTERS -- APPENDIX II. THE DUKE OF KENT BUSINESS -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G



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Sommario/riassunto

An account of a mysterious murder committed in nineteenth-century Troy, New York, and the sensational trial that ensued.