| Murder in Minnesota: A Collection of True Cases Revised Edition Contributor(s): Trenerry, Walter N. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0873511808 ISBN-13: 9780873511803 Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 1962 Annotation: A talented writer with an incisive wit, Trenerry chronicles sixteen famous Minnesota murder cases from 1858 when Minnesota became a state to 1917, revealing the gradual changes in social attitudes from the frontier justice of the 1850s to the abolishment of capital punishment. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - Midwest(ia,il,in,ks,mi,mn,mo,nd,ne,oh,sd,wi - True Crime | Murder - General - Biography & Autobiography |
| Dewey: 364.152 |
| LCCN: 84020652 |
| Series: Minnesota |
| Physical Information: 0.79" H x 5.44" W x 8.58" (0.77 lbs) 264 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 - Cultural Region - Great Lakes - Cultural Region - Midwest - Geographic Orientation - Minnesota |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "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 Review "An 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 Magazine "A fine example of true-crime writing for all devotees of that form."--San Francisco Chronicle |
