Midnight Assassin: A Murder in America's Heartland by Patricia L. Bryan,Thomas Wolf

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By Patricia L. Bryan,Thomas Wolf

In 1900, Margaret Hossack, the spouse of a widespread Iowa farmer, used to be arrested for bludgeoning her husband to demise with an ax whereas their childrens slept upstairs. The neighborhood used to be outraged: How may a girl dedicate such an act of violence? Firsthand debts describe the sufferer, John Hossack, as a merciless and volatile guy. might be Margaret Hossack was once performing out of worry. or even the tale she informed was once true—that an interloper broke into the home, killed her husband whereas she slept soundly beside him, and was once nonetheless at the free. Newspapers around the state carried the tale, and group sentiment was once divided over her guilt. At trial, Margaret was once convicted of homicide, yet later was once published on charm. eventually, neither her innocence nor her guilt was once ever proved.

Patricia Bryan and Thomas Wolf learn the cruel realities of farm lifestyles on the flip of the century and view the plight of women—legally, socially, and politically—during that interval. What additionally emerges is the tale of early feminist Susan Glaspell, who coated the Hossack case as a tender reporter and later used it because the foundation for her acclaimed paintings “ A Jury of Her Peers.”

Midnight Assassin expertly renders the yankee personality and event: our obsession with crime, how justice is accomplished, and the strong effect of the media.

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