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In The Headlands, Henry is an amateur sleuth and true crime aficionado who sets out to solve the ultimate case: the unsolved murder of his father. Using his memories and the family stories he was told as a child growing up in San Francisco, Henry begins an investigation through a labyrinth of secrets and deceptions that leads him to question those closest to him. The Headlands is a contemporary noir that explores the stories we tell ourselves and the fallibility of the mind.-- Publisher

• --Robert O'Brien. "Wolves in the fold," the case of Laura D. Fair, 1870.--Oscar Lewis. "The phosphorescent bride," the case of Dr. J. Milton Bowers, 1885.--Hildegarde Tellhut and Anthony Bouche. "The demon in the belfry," the case of Theodore Durrant, 1805.--L. G. Offord. "The gifts of Cordelia," the case of Cordelia Botkin, 1898.--Alfred Meyers. "Tenderloin," the murder of Nora Fuller, 1902.--J. H. Jackson. "Other than a good one," the case of Emma Le Doux, 1906.--John Bruce. "The flapjack murder," the murder of Father Patrick E. Heslin, 1921.--L. G. Offord. "Eleven days' wonder," the case of Charles Henry Schwartz, 1925.--Alfred Meyers. "Boss-Missy," the murder of Rosetta Glens," the case of Jerome Braun von Selz, 1936.

• v.1 Transcript on appeal
• v.2 Respondent's brief.

• All in a mad July
• A parade and a bomb
• The city goes mad
• Three keys that were thrown away
• Old enemies meet again
• How Martin Swanson worked
• The suspension of law
• The "weird procession"
• The "procession" continued
• The amazing verdict
• The alibi photographs
• The "honest cattleman"
• Tom Mooney is tried
• The victory that lost.

• My mother the murder suspect
• Vigilance!
• The fourth estate
• Gangs of the Barbary Coast
• Official misconduct
• Popular attractions
• The state-sanctioned lynch mob
• Chicago to the bay
• No parts lying together in one place
• Urban renewal
• When the garden flowers, baby, are dead
• Zodiac adjacent
• The murder capital of the world
• Death to the fascist insect that preys upon the life of the people
• Killing Gerald Ford
• Rainbows and leather
• The Golden Dragon massacre
• The last victims of Jonestown
• The white working class
• The face of the girl in room 24
• The hucksters
• The outside lands
• The night stalker is born
• The scene
• Upward mobility
• Two-fisted liberal
• The technological divide
• A real fixer-upper
• The last days of Tom Guido

"The 170-year history of the San Francisco Bay Area told through its crimes and how they intertwine with the city's art, music, and politics In The Murders That Made Us, the story of the San Francisco Bay Area unfolds through its most violent and depraved acts. From the city's earliest days, where vigilantes hung perps from buildings and newspaper publishers shot it out on Market Street, to the kidnapping of Patty Hearst and the Zodiac Killer, crime has made the people of San Francisco who they are. Murder and mayhem are intertwined with the city's art, music, and politics. The Great 1906 Earthquake that burned down the old Barbary Coast shook a city that was already teetering on the brink of a massive prostitution scandal. The Summer of Love ended with a pair of ghastly acid dealer slayings that made the Haight too violent for even Charles Manson. The '70s ground to a halt with San Francisco pastor Jim Jones forcing his followers to drink cyanide-laced punch in Guyana, and the assassination of gay icon Harvey Milk. With each tale of true crime, The Murders That Made Us will take you from the violence that began in the original Gold Rush into the brutal displacement of today's techie ruination."-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction : Laura D. Fair and the unwritten law
• The she-devil known as Mrs. Laura D. Fair
• The case for the prosecution
• The defense responds
• The Appeal
• The Second Trial
• The Fair Lunatic
• Epilogue: The Many Faces of Laura D. Fair

On November 3, 1870, on a San Francisco ferry, Laura Fair shot a bullet into the heart of her married lover, A. P. Crittenden. Throughout her two murder trials, Fair's lawyers, supported by expert testimony from physicians, claimed that the shooting was the result of temporary insanity caused by a severely painful menstrual cycle. The first jury disregarded such testimony, choosing instead to focus on Fair's disreputable character. In the second trial, however, an effective defense built on contemporary medical beliefs and gendered stereotypes led to a verdict that shocked Americans across the country. In this rousing history, Carole Haber probes changing ideas about morality and immorality, masculinity and femininity, love and marriage, health and disease, and mental illness to show that all these concepts were reinvented in the Victorian West. Haber's book examines the era's most controversial issues, including suffrage, the gendered courts, women's physiology, and free love. This notorious story enriches our understanding of Victorian society, opening the door to a discussion about the ways in which reputation, especially female reputation, is shaped.
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• Introduction: Laura Fair and the unwritten law
• The she-devil known as Mrs. Laura Fair
• The case for the prosecution
• The defense responds
• The appeal
• The second trial
• The fair lunatic
• Epilogue: The Many faces of Laura Fair

On November 3, 1870, on a San Francisco ferry, Laura Fair shot a bullet into the heart of her married lover, A. P. Crittenden. Throughout her two murder trials, Fair's lawyers, supported by expert testimony from physicians, claimed that the shooting was the result of temporary insanity caused by a severely painful menstrual cycle. The first jury disregarded such testimony, choosing instead to focus on Fair's disreputable character. In the second trial, however, an effective defense built on contemporary medical beliefs and gendered stereotypes led to a verdict that shocked Americans across the country. In this rousing history, Carole Haber probes changing ideas about morality and immorality, masculinity and femininity, love and marriage, health and disease, and mental illness to show that all these concepts were reinvented in the Victorian West. Haber's book examines the era's most controversial issues, including suffrage, the gendered courts, women's physiology, and free love. This notorious story enriches our understanding of Victorian society, opening the door to a discussion about the ways in which reputation, especially female reputation, is shaped.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)