Minnie Dean: Her Life & Crimes By Lynley Hood.

Published by Penguin 1994, first edition.

Paperback, tanned and foxed inside front and back covers, minor shelf/edge wear and creasing, otherwise very good with no inscriptions.
221 pages. Illustrations, facsims., map, ports.

In 1895 Minnie Dean became the only woman hanged as a criminal in New Zealand. Her crime was child murder. The author works through the labyrinth of myths and legends to the real Minnie Dean and raises some disturbing questions.