The Minister and the Choir Singer The Hall-Mills Murger Case

"None of today's sordid homicides could hold a candle, or perhaps I should say a blunt instrument, to this saturnalia...for this was the case that had absolutely everything...respectability gone wrong, sex, butherym courtroom drama rivaling in its own terms the Battle of Gettysburg, all in one gory package. What connoisseur of calculated mayhem could ask for more?" - New York Herald Tribune"Exciting tale of murder and the slings and arrows of its aftermath...fascinating....fully documented...surely never surpassed anywhere." - The New York TimesA baffling crime...who really killed the minister and the choir singer (the sexton's wife)...placed them side by side in a lovers' lane...and scattered their love letters over them?A strange investigation...Why did four years elapse before the case came to trial...vital information disappear...the scene of the crime become so destroyed that it was beyond recognition? A bizarre trial...Where did the creature known as Pig Woman come from?...Could the murderer have been sitting in the jury box while the accused was on the witness stand?First Dell Printing - 288 pages