In turn-of-the century New York City, midwife Sarah Brandt and Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy see birth and death--and even murder...
Murder at St. Mark's
β Scribed by Priscilla Baker
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 48 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
- Introduction -- 2. The generation of suspicion: single women, bastardy and the law -- 3. Examining suspects: conflicting accounts of pregnancy, birth and death -- 4. Examining bodies: medical evidence and the coroner's inquest -- 5. Virtuous or vicious: conflicting accounts of accused women -- 6. Evidence in court: the verdicts of inquest, grand and trial juries -- 7. Single, women, bastardy and the law: the decline and fall of the 1624 statute.
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