The Infamous Harry Hayward: A True Account of Murder and Mesmerism in Gilded Age Minneapolis

by Shawn Francis Peters

A fascinating tale of seduction, murder, fraud, coercion--and the trial of the "Minneapolis Monster"

On a winter night in 1894, a young woman's body was found in the middle of a road near Lake Calhoun on the outskirts of Minneapolis. She had been shot through the head. The murder of Kittie Ging, a twenty-nine-year-old dressmaker, was the final act in a melodrama of seduction and betrayal, petty crimes and monstrous deeds that would...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517903750
• ISBN13: 9781517903756
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.2"