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From acclaimed true-crime journalist Linda Wolfe, a spellbinding true tale of 19th-century intimacy, scandal, and cold-blooded murder. In 1831, Lucretia Winslow Chapman was a partner and mom of five who had founded one of Philadelphia's first boarding classes for girls. But her comfortable life and relationship to visible local scientist William Chapman improved forever the night Lino Espos y Mina came out at their door, requesting lodging. It wasn't a long time before the Cuban con musician had entrenched himself in the Chapman home and begun an illicit affair with Lucretia. Just a little over a month later, William Chapman was deceased from a lethal medication dosage of poison. Lino and Lucretia were eventually arrested and costed with murder - and the two times trial of the century begun. Wolfe skillfully weaves judge transcripts, love characters, and period recollections into an edge-of-your-seat historical thriller about the offense that rocked pre-Civil Conflict America. Using its shocking verdicts that brought up troubling questions about sexism and racism, this mesmerizing true-crime tale still resonates almost 200 years later.
