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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. TrenerryMurder in Minnesota features some of the states most infamous criminalsa 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 chaptersinvolving both well-known and obscure practitioners of the deadly arttell 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 Minnesotas noble example!Anthony Boucher, Ellery Queens Mystery MagazineA fine example of true-crime writing for all devotees of that form.San Francisco Chronicle