Lauren Willig, NY Times best selling author, visited The New York Law Institute in 2022 and made use of collection to research the “Manhattan Well Murder” case.

Lauren Willig & yours truly ….@ NYLI…back in 2022

Described on the book flap as “part murder mystery, part thriller, part true crime,” Willig’s The Girl from Greenwich Street involves the still-unsolved murder of Elma Sands. Burr and Hamilton — sworn political enemies– both worked as defense attorneys and successfully gained an acquittal of the accused.

And, of particular interest to this law librarian, the trial of Levi Weeks was the first murder trial in the United States for which there is a formal record.

Published in March 2025

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Thank you Lauren Willig for listing NYLI (& myself!) in your latest book’s acknowledgements….