From the Book - First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Prologue: Christmas night 1843
Part I: a fallen woman. Islands in the stream
They would hang her without judge or jury
The living jury of the nation
Part II: the Staten Island trial. Poe cracks the case
The people v. Mary Bodine
Ghosts of Granite Village
The man in the Spanish cloak
Part III: the Manhattan trial. Barnum's witch
The weight of the baskets
Gala night at the Park Theater
To conceal the circumstances of her pregnancy
Cruel and unbecoming curiosity
The hanging of Polly Bodine
Part IV: the Newburgh trial. National police gazette
George Washington camped here
Fragment of the mother's dress
Orange County House v. United States Hotel
The gangs that infest New York
Polly Bodine in the popular imagination
Afterword: lawyers will not save us