The Trial of Professor John White Webster. Famous Trials Series

1928. [Webster, John White]. Dilnot, George. The Trial of Professor of John White Webster. With an Introduction by George Dilnot. Author of "Scotland Yard," etc. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. Illustrated. viii, 275 pp. Famous Trials Series. Original cloth. Moderate shelfwear with some rubbing and sunning to spine. Internally clean. $15. * First edition. The most famous medico-legal murder trial of the 19th century on which a conviction was gained based upon circumstantial evidence. Indeed for many years "the trial of Professor Webster remained a leading case on the value of circumstantial evidence." Marke 1008.