Murder by the Bay 
Subtitle: Historic Homicide in and about the City of San Francisco
Publisher: Quill Driver Books/Word Dancer Press
Published: October 15, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9781884995460
Subjects: Social conditions; San Francisco; History: American; History; True Crime / Espionage; United States - State & Local - West; San Francisco (Calif.); Murder - General; History of specific subjects; California; Case studies; Homicide
First sentence: In the summer of 1848, a small band of travelers made its way across the narrow isthmus of Panama, en route from the ship that had brought them from the Eastern seaboard of the United States to another ship that would carry them up the coast of California