Today, we explore how the conventions of detective fiction informed--and misinformed--the investigation into the murder of Elliott Speer....

In 1937, former Mount Hermon employee S. Allan Norton was ambushed at home by a trespasser with a shotgun. Norton identified his attacker...

Within a week or two of the shooting of Elliott Speer, Dean Thomas Elder, second-in-command at Mount Hermon School for Boys, became the...

In 1934, police were initially baffled by the murder of Elliott Speer. Then, one day, while an investigator was combing over the...

The son of an internationally renowned Presbyterian preacher, Elliott Speer became headmaster of the Mount Hermon School for Boys, a...