Five best books with sensational murder trials

Harold Schechter, author of the recently published The Devil's Gentleman: Privilege, Poison, and the Trial That Ushered in the Twentieth Century, named a five best list of books in which "sensational murder trials are at their most transfixing" for Opinion Journal.Number One on his list:The Murder of Helen Jewett by Patricia Cline Cohen (Knopf, 1998).On the night of April 9, 1836, a young