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Dear Knowlton, —It is possible that you remember, but probable that you have forgotten one Edmund Pearson, who sat at your table in Memorial Hall, and used to talk with you about the Borden case.

So begins the first letter in this collection sent from Edmund Lester Pearson to Frank Warren Knowlton, the son of Hosea Morrill Knowlton, the prosecuting attorney at the famed murder trial. Interested in the study of crime for both its psychological and social aspects, Pearson had always been fascinated by the trial of Lizzie Andrew Borden and wished to include an essay on the case in a volume he was preparing about American murders, “The Borden Case,” in Studies in Murder, published by The Macmillan Company in 1924.

—annotated & includes the inquest testimony of Lizzie A. Borden

Edited by Michael Martins, Dennis A. Binette, & Stefani Koorey, PhD

Softcover, 332 pp., illustrated; $29.95