<span>On Memorial Day 1933, 
Stanford executive David Lamson found his wife, Allene, dead in their 
Palo Alto home. The only suspect, he became the face of California’s 
most sensational murder trial of the century. After a judge sentenced 
him to hang at San Quentin, a team of Stanford colleagues stepped in to 
form the Lamson Defense Committee. The group included poets Yvor Winters
 and Janet Lewis, as well as the “Sherlock Holmes of Berkeley,” 
criminologist E.O. Heinrich. They managed to overturn the verdict and 
incite a series of heated retrials that gripped and divided the 
community. Was Lamson the victim of aggressive prosecutors, or was he a 
master of deception whose connections helped him get away with murder? 
Author and Stanford alum Tom Zaniello meticulously examines the details 
of a notorious case with a lingering legacy.</span>

California's Lamson Murder Mystery: The Depression Era Case that Divided Santa Clara County (True Crime) PDF

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