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The Murder of Mary Bean and Other Stories (True Crime History)
Elizabeth A de Wolfe
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Description for The Murder of Mary Bean and Other Stories (True Crime History)
Paperback. When the winter ice melted in April 1850, residents of Saco, Maine, made a gruesome discovery: the body of a young girl submerged in a stream. She was identified as a Canadian mill worker named Berengera Caswell. This work features two accounts of her death, both fictional, and an introduction that places these accounts in a historical context. Series: True Crime History. Num Pages: 224 pages, bibliography, notes, illustrations, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BTC; GTB; HBJK; HBLL; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
When the winter ice melted in April 1850, residents of Saco, Maine, made a gruesome discovery: the body of a young girl submerged in a stream. Thanks to evidence left at the scene, a local physician was arrested and tried for the death of Mary Bean, the name given to the unidentified young girl; the cause of death was failed abortion. Garnering extensive newspaper coverage, the trial revealed many secrets: a poorly trained doctor, connections to an unsolved murder in New Hampshire, and the true identity of ""Mary Bean"" - a young Canadian mill worker named Berengera Caswell, missing since ... Read more
When the winter ice melted in April 1850, residents of Saco, Maine, made a gruesome discovery: the body of a young girl submerged in a stream. Thanks to evidence left at the scene, a local physician was arrested and tried for the death of Mary Bean, the name given to the unidentified young girl; the cause of death was failed abortion. Garnering extensive newspaper coverage, the trial revealed many secrets: a poorly trained doctor, connections to an unsolved murder in New Hampshire, and the true identity of ""Mary Bean"" - a young Canadian mill worker named Berengera Caswell, missing since ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Kent State University Press
Condition
New
Series
True Crime History
Place of Publication
Kent, OH, United States
ISBN
9780873389181
SKU
V9780873389181
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About Elizabeth A de Wolfe
Elizabeth A. De Wolfe is associate professor of history at the University of New England in Biddeford, Maine. She is coeditor (with Thomas S. Edwards) of Such News of the Land: U.S. Women Nature Writers (2001) and the author of Shaking the Faith: Women, Family and Mary Marshall Dyer's Anti-Shaker Campaign, 1815-1867 (2002), which received the 2003 Outstanding Publication Award ... Read more
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