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The Adventuress: Murder, Blackmail, and Confidence Games in the Gilded Age

The Adventuress: Murder, Blackmail, and Confidence Games in the Gilded Age

McConnell

Hardcover

Series: True Crime History (Kent State)

Biographies GeneralTrue Crime

Publisher Price: $29.95

ISBN10: 160635034X
ISBN13: 9781606350348
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Published: Mar 25 2010
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.24
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.60 Depth: 9.28
Language: English
Awards: Independent Publisher Book Awards
The engaging tale of a nineteenth-century black widow

Intrigue, deception, bribery, poison, murder--all play a central role in the story of Minnie Walkup, a young woman from New Orleans who began her life of crime when she was only sixteen years old.

Born in 1869 to Elizabeth and James Wallace, Minnie was a natural beauty and attended convent school where she learned social graces and how to play the piano. After the divorce of her parents, she was raised in multiple boardinghouses owned by her mother, and at one of them, met her first husband, James Reeves Walkup. At sixteen, she married Walkup, a forty-nine-year-old successful businessman and acting mayor of Emporia, Kansas. One month later, Walkup died from arsenic poisoning and his young wife was accused of murdering him. Her trial became one of the most sensational cases in Kansas history and was covered by reporters across the nation.

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