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The shocking story of Helmuth Schmidt : Michigan's original lonely-hearts killer / Tobin T. Buhk.
- Title
- The shocking story of Helmuth Schmidt : Michigan's original lonely-hearts killer / Tobin T. Buhk.
- Author
- Buhk, Tobin T.
- Publication
- Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2013.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | HV6533.M5 B84 2013 | Off-site |
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- Description
- pages cm
- Summary
- "In the fall of 1916, New York housemaid AugustaSteinbach fell in love with a man she met through a matrimonial advertisementin her local newspaper. She traveled to Detroit to marry her correspondent, butin March 1917, she mysteriously disappeared. What began as a routine search fora missing person turned into a baffling case of deception, bigamy and murder.Follow detectives as they unravel the tangled web spun by Michigan's originallonely hearts killer--a criminal mastermind the Detroit News dubbed "one of America's master outlaws.""--
- "An account of the murders of Helmuth Schmidt"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- True crime stories
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-185) and index.
- Contents
- The domestic and the suitor -- "A real queer case" -- The evil eye -- The web he wove -- Epilogue -- Unanswered questions.
- ISBN
- 9781626190177 (pbk.)
- 1626190178 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2013022883
- OCLC
- 845236151
- SCSB-11104038
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library