Gaslight Lawyers
Criminal Trials and Exploits in Gilded Age New York
Gaslight Lawyers paints a serious but entertaining portrait of colorful characters, courtroom drama, and the emerging importance of forensic science and medical-legal jurisprudence in Gilded Age New York City. It sheds new light on a gallery of notables of the day and their criminal cases and chronicles police bungling, corruption, famous physicians, and alienists. Other characters and infamous criminals illuminate the social conditions in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century New York City.
