Acknowledgments Introduction: Troy, New York, 1853 PART ONE: Henrietta Robinson, spring 1852-spring 1853 1. River Street 2. May 25th 3. The New Prisoner PART TWO: JOHN C. MATHER, BIRTH(1813)-spring 1853 4. Introducing John C. Mather 5. Rise 6. Trouble PART THREE: PRETRIAL, JUNE 1853-APRIL 1854 7. Contagion 8. Long Hot Summer Into Fall 9. Limbo Time PART FOUR: Trial, May 1854 10. Day One-Officers of the Court 11. Day Two-The Doctors 12. Day Three-The Veil 13. Day Four-Bombshell 14. Day Five-Some Antebellum Lore 15. Day Six-Verdict PART FIVE: THE VEILED MURDERESS, JUNE 1854-AUGUST 1855 16. Settled But Not Settled 17. Breaking of the Storm 18. More Mather 19. Trends 20. Charlotte Wood 21. Lively Season 22. "Admiral Pagnum's Daughter" 23. Angel of Mercy 24. Departure PART SIX: Irish Answer, 1851 and the DEEPER PAST 25. Susan Gaynor 26. Immigrants and Others PART SEVEN: LATER LIFE AND LEGEND, SEPTEMBER 1855-MAY 1905 27. The Sing Sing Years 28. Auburn 29. Charlotte Doolittle Norris 30. Finale PART EIGHT: CONCLUSION 31. What Really Happened Appendix I: The Wood Daughters Appendix II: The Duke of Kent Business Notes Index
Jeanne Winston Adler is the author of Early Days in the Adirondacks: The Photographs of Seneca Ray Stoddard and the editor of In the Path of War: Children of the American Revolution and Chainbreaker's War: A Seneca Chief Remembers the American Revolution. She lives in Salem, New York.
"Adler's painstaking research demonstrates that Robinson's murder trial is more than a sensational historical tale ... this remains a fascinating story, one that will be of interest to scholars of urban life, crime, politics, and gender in nineteenth-century America." - New York History "Adler deftly navigates an abundance of primary source material to recreate the facts of Robinson's sensational murder trial in this enjoyable page-turner. The Affair of the Veiled Murderess is an ... excellent entry to the subject for the general reader." - H-Net Reviews, H-Law "...a must-read for mystery fans or anyone who enjoys the culture of mid-nineteenth century New York." - Hudson River Valley Review "The Affair of the Veiled Murderess is the riveting account of a previously unsolved murder committed in Troy, New York, in the nineteenth century. The author has captured the city of Troy such as to make of it one of the characters. She goes step by step through the process of detection until she has solved this real-life murder mystery to the reader's complete satisfaction. I recommend it highly." - Richard Selzer, author of Down From Troy and Knife Song Korea "To me it's an excellent book. Fascinating in its discussion and scholarship on nineteenth-century Hudson Valley and State politics, plus the sleuthery regarding the murderess." - Ed Sanders, author of America: A History in Verse, Vol. 1: 1900-1939
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