Offering a detective story with more twists and turns than a Dashiell Hammett novel, Mr. White leads us through his research into the labyrinth. Along the way, [he] uncovers a century-long campaign kicked off by the university's first president to cloud the circumstances of Jane Stanford's death....[A] brilliant, acerbic guide into a world that resonates with the present, ...Mr. White has done an astonishing job of sifting through the available clues–and turning up an impressive array of new details. In this fascinating 'whydunit, ' he makes a convincing case for why Jane Stanford's murder was covered up for so long.–Julia Flynn Siler "Wall Street Journal"