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


Paperback (Trade paperback US) | Jul 2018 | University of Minnesota Press | 9781517903756 | 280pp | 209x139mm | RFB | AUD$27.99, NZD$34.99

Shawn Francis Peters's spellbinding story of the "Minneapolis Monster" details the trial of Harry Hayward—a serial seducer and schemer deemed a "Svengali," a "lunatic," and a "man without a soul." His life story, told in full for the first time here, unfolds a transfixing tale of one of the most notorious criminals in America during the Gilded Age.