A review by musicalpopcorn
Blood & Ivy: The 1849 Murder That Scandalized Harvard by Paul Collins
3.0
In the winter of 1849, a wealthy landlord goes missing without a trace until the janitor at the medical college of Harvard makes a grisly discovery.
While I liked this book overall, I found it spent too much time setting the scene. It took quite a long time to even get to the murder and the number of characters was high. I don’t know that bookending it with stories about Charles dickens was really necessary considering he had little to do with the story.
An entertaining read if admittedly bogged down in unnecessary details
While I liked this book overall, I found it spent too much time setting the scene. It took quite a long time to even get to the murder and the number of characters was high. I don’t know that bookending it with stories about Charles dickens was really necessary considering he had little to do with the story.
An entertaining read if admittedly bogged down in unnecessary details