Blood on the Mitten

<p>Before Michigan became a state there were witch trials scalp collectors dirty sports and a massacre of epic proportions. The lumber era that followed made Michigan as much of a wild wild west as Deadwood. And Prohibition allowed a group of Detroit thugs to run roughshod over even the likes of Al Capone.</p><p>There's more:</p><p>• A father who shoots his daughter and friends for being hippies just as an eerily similar tale hits the silver screen</p><p>• A widow whose love of dressing up leaves a trail of poisoned relatives across the Lower Peninsula</p><p>• A lawless Upper Peninsula town that not only hangs two criminals without trial but forces women to lie with the corpses</p><p>• A murder that spread its victim's body parts along I-75 from Detroit to Pellston</p><p><strong>In Blood on the Mitten</strong> crimes of passion crimes of necessity and cold calculated evil take on flesh bones and blood. These 57 illustrated read-out loud tales from across time also look at the historical context of murder in Michigan and beyond.</p>