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An account of a murder that took place in New York in 1836. Helen Jewett was a poor farmgirl from Maine who moved to Manhattan and, as a prostitute, eventually became one of the wealthiest women in town. Richard Robinson, one of her many lovers, was charged with her murder, and the ensuing trial was one of the most sensational of the 19th century. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998.
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