A Revolting Transaction Author:Barnaby Conrad When the great-grandmother of the famed author of the Matador, a wealthy widow, was murdered in Denver in 1891 the crime was a front page sensation and resulted in the longest homicide trial to date. — It also had a bizarre outcome: the convicted "murderer," a Providence, Rhode Island, physician who was the first in his class at Harvard Medical S... more »chool and who stood to gain from the victim's will, outwitted justice and never paid the supreme penalty. Case closed. Not quite. From papers unearthed from his late mother's effects, and from painstaking investigation, Barnaby Conrad unfolds a spellbinding tale of passion, duplicity, jealousy and revenge in Victorian America (whose purple atmosphere it deliciously evokes) and points the finger of accusation at the real murderer - finally, almost one hundred years after the crime.
"A Revolting Transaction" is a true crime story of "murder most foul" - a sensational story of death by mail - in the heyday of Baby Doe and the silver barons.q« less