Patricia Bryan: Midnight Assassin: A Murder In America's Heartland
Channel: Cowles Library
Date: 2012-09-27

Midnight Assassin: A Murder in American's Heartland is a nonfiction work that documents the controversial, turn-of-the century homicide investigation and  murder trial of Iowan Margaret Hossack, who was accused of killing her husband with an ax while he slept.
 
Patricia Bryan, author and attorney, based her book on a short story written by Susan Glaspell, a 1899 Drake graduate, journalist  and author who reported on the trial .

Presentation at Cowles Library, Drake University, October 20, 2011.