Hell's princess : the mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men / Harold Schechter.
Publisher: New York : Little A, Little A, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Edition: First editionDescription: xvi, 316 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781477808955
- 1477808957
- 9781477808948
- 1477808949
- Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men
- 364.1523
- HV6517 .S343 2018
Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Books | Leesburg Public Library | Biography | Biography | B Gunness, B. Schechter | Available | 33099004287226 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-294) and index.
"The shocking true story of one of the twentieth century's most prolific female serial killers." -- book jacket.
Belle Gunness engaged in wholesale slaughter, partly out of greed but mostly for the sheer joy of it. Between 1902 and 1908 she lured a succession of unsuspecting victims to her La Porte, Indiana 'murder farm.' Some were hired hands. Others were well-to-do bachelors. All of them vanished without a trace. When their bodies were dug up, they hadn't merely been poisoned... they'd been butchered. Schechter profiles the killing spree of the woman who came to be known as Lady Bluebeard.
There are no comments on this title.