In his popular Strange Days Dangerous Nights Millett has delivered images of Midwestern noir from the photo files of the St. Paul Pioneer Press. He returns with a focus on the dangerous murder cases from the 1940s and 50s memorialized in these telling photographs. In his popular Strange Days Dangerous Nights Larry Millett delivered Weegee-style images of midwestern noir from the photo files of the St. Paul Pioneer Press. He returns in this new volume with a focus on the dangerous murder cases from the forties and fifties memorialized in intimate and telling photographs. There is Arthur DeZeler accused of bludgeoning his wife Grace and sinking her body in a northern lake. Laura Miller single and pregnant ran for help after gunshots killed her married lover. Arnold Axilrod a mild-mannered dentist with a penchant for over-sedating his female patients was arrested when the lifeless body of one of those patients was discovered in a Minneapolis alley. And finally there is Arnold Larson the personable salesman with a winning smile and a bad temper. Millett traces these four sensational crimes from the moment the victim was found through the search for the killer to the court trial and resulting imprisonment or acquittal--there are two of each. All are copiously illustrated with shots from the bulky Speed Graphic camera which yielded rich textured views in an era when photographers enjoyed unrestricted access to police matters ranging from found bodies to jail cells. The images dramatically evoke these crimes of passion now more than a half-century old offering a thrilling immersion into Minnesota noir.