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Edmund Lester Pearson (1880-1937) was a popular New York journalist and writer. In the 1920s and 1930s he was considered one of the country's best trial and crime reporters. Between 1924, the year ""Studies in Murder"" was first printed and 1936 he published six books about murder cases. The Lizzie Borden case (August 1892) was to Pearson ""without parallel in the criminal history of America."" It takes centre stage in ""Studies in Murder"", and Pearson's version is still considered the classic account of the Borden murders. The other three cases Pearson retells are ""The Twenty-Third Street Murder"" of New York financier Benjamin Nathan (July 1870); ""Mate Bram,"" about the double murder of a ship captain and his wife; and ""The Hunting Knife"" murder of Miss Mabel Page in 1904. Pearson carefully researched these cases and interviewed people connected with each. His accounts are detailed, careful and clear. In all cases, the determination of guilt rested on circumstantial evidence, which left unanswered questions, still capable of intriguing the contemporary reader. The introduction provides information about Pearson and his times.

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