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Title details for The Shocking Story of Helmuth Schmidt by Tobin T. Buhk - Available

The Shocking Story of Helmuth Schmidt

by Tobin T. Buhk
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The author of True Crime: Michigan “tells the tale of an alleged World War I German spy and love-ad bandit from Royal Oak who killed to cover up his work” (C&G News).
 
In the fall of 1916, New York housemaid Augusta Steinbach fell in love with a man she met through a matrimonial advertisement in her local newspaper. She traveled to Detroit to marry her correspondent, but in March 1917, she mysteriously disappeared. What began as a routine search for a missing person turned into a baffling case of deception, bigamy, and murder. Follow detectives as they unravel the tangled web spun by Michigan’s original lonely-hearts killer—a criminal mastermind the Detroit News dubbed “one of America's master outlaws.”
 
Includes photos
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Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Kindle Book

  • Release date: July 2, 2013

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  • ISBN: 9781625840950
  • Release date: July 2, 2013

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  • ISBN: 9781625840950
  • File size: 2853 KB
  • Release date: July 2, 2013

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subjects

Biography & Autobiography History True Crime Nonfiction

Languages

English

The author of True Crime: Michigan “tells the tale of an alleged World War I German spy and love-ad bandit from Royal Oak who killed to cover up his work” (C&G News).
 
In the fall of 1916, New York housemaid Augusta Steinbach fell in love with a man she met through a matrimonial advertisement in her local newspaper. She traveled to Detroit to marry her correspondent, but in March 1917, she mysteriously disappeared. What began as a routine search for a missing person turned into a baffling case of deception, bigamy, and murder. Follow detectives as they unravel the tangled web spun by Michigan’s original lonely-hearts killer—a criminal mastermind the Detroit News dubbed “one of America's master outlaws.”
 
Includes photos
Expand title description text
Biography & Autobiography History True Crime Nonfiction