A review by enidsorko
Blood & Ivy: The 1849 Murder That Scandalized Harvard by Paul Collins

3.0

This starts off very slowly, and I almost put it down after a couple of chapters, but then it picked up a bit- or maybe I just got used to the author's style of jumping around a bit and having odd ways to starting new sections. It provides a great glimpse into life in Harvard and Cambridge/Boston in the late 1840s- even little things like how the incoming class was selected each year were interesting to read about. This case was also the first time that teeth were used as forensic evidence in a murder case.