A review by tahlia__nerds_out
Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University by Richard White

dark informative mysterious medium-paced

4.5

A fascinating story centering on corruption, selfishness, spite, and a desire for dominance. Filled with people who are hard to like, this story nonetheless drew me in as it revealed the complexities of the time and of the people who lived in it. This may be a story about a murder, but it is almost as much -- if not more so -- about a university: its founding, trials, and how the of its foundress' life and death affected its future.