Murder at Harvard

by Helen Thomson

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395127254
• ISBN13: 9780395127254
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Not bad, with reservations

This book is a rather facile account of the murder on Nov. 23, 1849, of Dr. George Parkman, uncle of historian Francis Parkman, by a Harvard professor. This is a famous case, and this book gives all the gruesome details. Boston in 1849 was a small world and many famous persons flit thru the pages of this book: Longfellow, Melville, Charles Sumner, Edward Everett, Oliver Wendell Holmes, etc. As a true crime book I found it objectionable that the author purported to tell us what persons thought, but overall the book is not bad and holds one's interest. A shorter account of the same crime written by the famed crime writer Edmund L. Pearson can be found in the book Crimes That Shocked America, edited by Brant House and published in 1961 by Ace Books, Inc.