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Arsenic and Clam Chowder: Murder in Gilded Age New York (Excelsior Editions)

Author James D. Livingston
Publisher Excelsior Editions/State University of New Yo
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ISBN / ASIN1438431791
ISBN-139781438431796
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Recounts the sensational 1896 murder trial of Mary Alice Livingston, who was accused of murdering her mother with an arsenic-laced pail of clam chowder and faced the possibility of becoming the first woman to be executed in New York's new-fangled electric chair.