CONTENTS

Wasted

Prologue: The End of Summer

Part I: Jennifer and Robert

Chapter One: New Lives

Chapter Two: Coming of Age

Chapter Three: Valentines

Chapter Four: The Summer of ’86

Part II: Woman Down

Chapter Five: The Body in the Park

Chapter Six: The Interrogation

Chapter Seven: Rough Sex

Part III: The People V. Robert Chambers

Chapter Eight: Hopes and Prayers

Chapter Nine: The Long Wait

Chapter Ten: The Trial

Epilogue

Afterword

The Professor and the Prostitute

Introduction

The Professor and the Prostitute

Boston, Massachusetts · 1983

From a Nice Family

Dallas, Texas · 1981

The Strange Death of the Twin Gynecologists

New York, New York · 1975

The Downward Drift of a High School Star

Torrington, Connecticut, and New York, New York · 1981

A Tragedy on Eighty-ninth Street

New York, New York · 1980

The Transsexual, the Bartender, and the Suburban Princess

Rockland County, New York · 1981

The Lady Vanishes

Nantucket Island, Massachusetts · 1980

Dented Pride

New York, New York · 1983

Dr. Quaalude

New York, New York · 1979

Double Life

Prologue

Part 1: A Family and a Fortune

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Part 2: The Affair

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Part 3: “This Judge Is Either Crazy or Criminal”

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Epilogue

Source Notes

Acknowledgments

Author’s Note

The Murder of Dr. Chapman

1 Bucks County, Pennsylvania • June 1831

2 Cape Cod and Philadelphia • 1804–1818

3 Marriage • 1819–1828

4 Lino • 1829–1830

5 Bucks County, Pennsylvania • June 1831

6 Betrayal • July 1831

7 Departures • August–Mid-September 1831

8 Friends and Foes • Late September-Early December 1831

9 Pennsylvania v. Lucretia Chapman, Part One Mid-December 1831–Mid-February 1832

10 Pennsylvania v. Lucretia Chapman, Part Two February 22–25, 1832

11 “Yesterday I Was a Wonder” • April–June 1832

Epilogue

Endnotes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Love Me to Death

Part One: The Women

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Part Two: Ricardo

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Epilogue

Afterword

Acknowledgments

About the Author