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

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, pett...

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Autor principal: Peters, Shawn Francis, 1966- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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  • Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Minneapolis, circa 1895; Introduction: â#x80;#x9C;Under a Cloud of Moral Darknessâ#x80;#x9D;; 1. â#x80;#x9C;This Woman Was Murderedâ#x80;#x9D;; 2. â#x80;#x9C;Who Killed Kittie Ging?â#x80;#x9D;; 3. â#x80;#x9C;A Saturnalia of Crimeâ#x80;#x9D;; 4. â#x80;#x9C;Money Was My God!â#x80;#x9D;; 5. â#x80;#x9C;Go Out and Kill Somebodyâ#x80;#x9D;; 6. â#x80;#x9C;She Made No Sound, and Was Deadâ#x80;#x9D;; 7. â#x80;#x9C;The Plot of a Fiendâ#x80;#x9D;; 8. â#x80;#x9C;A Cursed Ghoulish Monsterâ#x80;#x9D;; 9. â#x80;#x9C;Donâ#x80;#x99;t Under Any Circumstances Squeal on Meâ#x80;#x9D;; 10. â#x80;#x9C;The Boldest Thing I Ever Heard of in My Lifeâ#x80;#x9D;; 11. â#x80;#x9C;We Shall Be Able to Prove Everythingâ#x80;#x9D.
  • 12. â#x80;#x9C;Youâ#x80;#x99;ll Be Wearing Stripes within a Yearâ#x80;#x9D;13. â#x80;#x9C;Evidence! Oh, What a Sham!â#x80;#x9D;; 14. â#x80;#x9C;Take Him to the Gallows!â#x80;#x9D;; 15. â#x80;#x9C;The Greatest Villain of the Nineteenth Centuryâ#x80;#x9D;; 16. â#x80;#x9C;Stained with Bloodâ#x80;#x9D;; 17. â#x80;#x9C;A Kind of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Existenceâ#x80;#x9D;; 18. â#x80;#x9C;The Awful Finaleâ#x80;#x9D;; Epilogue: â#x80;#x9C;I Had a Schemeâ#x80;#x9D;; Acknowledgments; Sources and Further Reading; Bibliography; Illustration Credits; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.