Description: "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 fora missing person turned into a baffling case of deception, bigamy and murder."--Provided by publisher.
Brief description: Tobin Buhk began his true crime research volunteering in a morgue, and the experience motivated him to write his first two books. Buhk is author of True Crime Michigan and True Crime in the Civil War.