Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
The did it for love or money...or both
Some of them fabled femme fatales of yesteryear. some headliners in yesterday's newspapers. Jean Harris, Ruth Snyder, Kate Bender, Belle Starr, Bonnie Parker, Phoolan Devi, Lizzie Borden, Grace Marks, Valerie Solanas, Amy Fisher and more true life who, where, why, when, and howdunnits. Bandit queens, gun molls, mothers, and widows (often selfmade) this array of reallife women who murdered makes for fascinating reading. Thoroughly researched, with archival photos and illustrations.
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.