Mysteries of Crime, As Shown in Remarkable Capital Trials by [A Member of the Massachusetts Bar] - 1870

Boston: Samuel Walker and Company, 1870. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. [1], 432 pages, [1]. Frontispiece, illustrations. Green cloth hardcover with gilt stamped illustration on the front cover. Gilt stamped title and design on the spine. Light edge and shelf wear to cloth corners and the spine. Small scuff mark back cover. "J. E. McFadden, 1878" inscription located on the front blank end sheet and his library label on the front paste down. Contents include Mystery of the Medical College; Trial of John W. Webster; The Priestly Murderer; Murder of Ellen Jewett; Trial of Richard P. Robinson; Henry Green, The murderer of His Bride; Anna Schonleben, The Poisoner; Albert J. Tirrell, Charged with the Murder of Maria Ann Bickford; The Murder of Captain Joseph White; William Jones; Rev. Ephraim K. Avery for the Murder of Sarah M. Cornell and others.