Journey back Inside The Blanket Fort as we continue our conversation with Sarah E. Lirley, the author of Sudden Deaths in St. Louis: Coroner Bias in the Gilded Age.
The scene of myriad grisly deaths, late nineteenth-century St. Louis was a hotbed for homicide, suicide, alcoholism, abortion, and workplace accidents. The role of the city’s Gilded Age coroners has not been fully examined, contextualized, or interrogated until now.
