How to Murder Your Wealthy Lovers and Get Away With It: Money & Mayhem in the Gilded Age

Whats a gal to do when her loaded lover is getting to be a nuisance? Why just murder him and take all his money of course. If you want to be fabulously single with tons of cash just follow the lead of the beautiful and conniving Minnie Wallace Walkup Ketcham who left a trail of broken hearts empty wallets and corpses.Minnie was just 16 when she stood trial in 1885 for the wrongful death of her first husband a successful businessman and politician almost 40 years her senior. Despite overwhelming witness testimony that the Creole beauty from New Orleans had purchased the arsenic that killed him Minnies own testimony brought the entire courtroom to tears. She was acquitted. Minnie returned to New Orleans with James Walkups fortune life insurance Civil War pension and all the expensive clothes she had shipped home before he even died.Minnie still didnt have enough cash for her liking so she successfully targeted seduced and murdered two more wealthy older men while evading justice in the courtroom (and escaping her lawyers fees too). How to Murder Your Three Lovers and Get Away with It is an extraordinary and off-the-wall true story of intrigue scandal and murder.