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Tender Murderers: Women Who Kill

by Trina Robbins

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Publisher Comments:

From murderous moms to Appalachian ax-handlers, this book is a rogue's gallery of fascinating female killers by an acclaimed cartoonist and author. Photos & illustrations throughout.

Synopsis:

An in-depth examination and profile of the female killer. Trina Robbins examines what kind of women commit the rarest of all crimes for women, murder, and why they do it. Here is a rogue's gallery of 20 fascinating but damned women, from the 1880s to the 1990s.

Table of Contents

Beaulah May Annan and Belva Gaertner : gin and guns — Winnie Ruth Judd : count the heads! — Jean Harris : integrity Jean and the diet doctor — Aileen Wuornos : I would kill again — Belle Gunness : Indiana ogress — Kate Bender : the family that slays together — Ruth Snyder : dubious distinctions — Dorothea Puente : arsenic and old lace redux — Belle Starr : the petticoat terror of the plains — Bonnie Parker : tell them I don't smoke cigars — Lai Choi San : the pirate queen of Macau — Phoolan Devi : India's bandit queen — Charlotte Corday : the woman who isn't in the painting --Frankie Silver : die with it in ye, Frankie! — Grace Marks : the Canadian conundrum — Lizzie Borden : forty whacks — Lolita Lebron : I came here to die — Valerie Solanas : I am a flower child — Squeaky Fromme : It didn't go off — Amy Fisher : the Long Island Lolita.

Product Details

ISBN:
9781573248211
Foreword:
Collins, Max Allan
Author:
Collins, Max Allan
Author:
Robbins, Trina
Publisher:
Conari Press
Location:
York Beach, ME
Subject:
Murder
Subject:
Women murderers
Subject:
TRUE CRIME / Murder
Subject:
Murder - General
Subject:
Crime - True Crime
Copyright:
Series Volume:
48
Publication Date:
20030331
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
224
Dimensions:
7.18x7.00x.53 in. .69 lbs.

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"Synopsis" by , An in-depth examination and profile of the female killer. Trina Robbins examines what kind of women commit the rarest of all crimes for women, murder, and why they do it. Here is a rogue's gallery of 20 fascinating but damned women, from the 1880s to the 1990s.
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