TY - BOOK AU - Hood, Lynley, TI - Minnie Dean: her life and crimes SN - 0140167633 (pbk.) : U1 - 364.1523099396 20 PY - 1994/// CY - Auckland, N.Z. PB - Penguin Books KW - Dean, Minnie, KW - Women murderers KW - New Zealand KW - Biography KW - Infanticide N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-214) and index N2 - The story of the legendary Minnie Dean, the Winton baby farmer, hanged for the murder of six children in Southland in 1895, is part of New Zealand mythology. In this book the award-winning biographer of Sylvia Ashton-Warner leads the reader through a labyrinth of myths and legends to the real Minnie Dean and raises some disturbing questions ER -