A brilliantly researched reinvestigation into the nearly forgotten
century-old murder that inspired one of the most seductive mysteries in
the history of television and film.
In 1908, Hazel Drew was found floating in a pond in Sand Lake, New York,
beaten to death. The unsolved murder inspired rumors, speculation, ghost
stories, and, almost a century later, the phenomenon of Twin Peaks.
Who killed Hazel Drew? Like Laura Palmer, she was a paradox of
personalities--a young, beautiful puzzle with secrets. Perhaps the even
trickier question is, Who was Hazel Drew?
Seeking escape from her poor country roots, Hazel found work as a
domestic servant in the notoriously corrupt metropolis of Troy, New
York. Fate derailed her plans for reinvention. But the investigation
that followed her brutal murder was fraught with red herrings,
wild-goose chases, and unreliable witnesses. Did officials really follow
the leads? Or did they bury them to protect the guilty?
The likely answer is revealed in an absorbing true mystery that's
ingeniously reconstructed and every bit as haunting as the cultural
obsession it inspired.