My investigation of Minnesota murders over the years revealed no new motives for killing anyone.
The old ones are perfectly satisfactory.
I hope you will find these murders interesting.
I regret that I could not report the most ingenious and remarkable ones.
They looked like accidents or natural deaths and were never discovered.
--Walter N.
Trenerry Murder in Minnesota features some of the state's most infamous criminals--a collection of fascinating and disagreeable characters usually ignored by historians.
They live again in these pages as the conniving, clever, mad, or pitiful creatures they were.
Fifteen chapters--involving both well-known and obscure practitioners of the deadly art--tell the stories of Ann Blansky, the only woman hanged in Minnesota; the famous Younger brothers, who with the James boys robbed the Northfield bank in 1876; the six Arbogast women of St.
Paul, who kept a murderous secret that still remains undisclosed; and many more.
Praise for Murder in Minnesota: You should not overlook this exemplary work.
--New York Times Book ReviewAn exemplary treatment of regional history as revealed by the spotlight of crime.
Would that the other .
state historical societies might follow Minnesota's noble example --Anthony Boucher, Ellery Queen's Mystery MagazineA fine example of true-crime writing for all devotees of that form.
--San Francisco Chronicle.
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Minnesota Historical Society Press Murder in minnesota: a collection of true cases, paperback/walter n. trenerry
