This page-turning popular history of the life and crimes of a Harvard professor in the 1840s will be appreciated by fans of true crime and the history of criminal law.
Cummings brings the Gilded Age to vivid life, with the barest suggestion of connections to today's click-bait news culture and epidemic of "affluenza." For popular history buffs as well as true crime fans.
This academic overview of the functioning of different organized crime groups will be welcomed by readers interested in the history of crime as well as true crime buffs.