Murder Has a Public Face: Crime and Punishment in the Speed Graphic Era

by Larry Millett

Book Overview

In his popular Strange Days, Dangerous Nights, Larry Millett delivered Weegee-style images of midwestern noir from the photo files of the St. Paul Pioneer Press. He returns with a focus on the "dangerous"-murder cases from the forties and fifties, memorialized in telling photographs.

There is Arthur DeZeler, accused of sinking his wife's body in a northern lake. Laura Miller, who ran for help after gunshots killed her married...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873516273
• ISBN13: 9780873516273
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Borealis Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 10.2" x 11.2"