Title: Arsenic and clam chowder
Description: "Arsenic and Clam Chowder recounts the sensational 1896 murder trial of Mary Alice Livingston, a member of one of the most prestigious families in New York, who was accused of murdering her own mother, Evelina Bliss. The bizarre instrument of death, an arsenic-laced pail of clam chowder, had been delivered to the victim by her ten-year-old granddaughter, and Livingston was arrested in her mourning clothes immediately after attending her mother's funeral. In addition to being the mother of four out-of-wedlock children, the last born in prison while she was awaiting trial, Livingston faced the possibility of being the first woman to be executed in New York's new-fangled electric chair, and all these lurid details made her arrest and trial the central focus of an all-out circulation war then underway between Joseph Pulitzer's World and Randolph Heart's Journal."--Jacket.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Murder, Case studies, History, Murder, united states, New york (n.y.), social life and customs
Places: New York (State), New York (N.Y.), New York
People: Evelina Bliss (1842-1895)
Time periods: 19th century