The Mammoth Book of Women Who Kill
谷歌图书
Richard Glyn Jones
简介
From the Florida roadside prostitute and first convicted serial killer Aileen Wuornos to the Empress poisoner of ancient Rome, this is the biggest collection of the world's most dangerous women newly revised and expanded, including: Ruth Snyder, the last woman in the US to go to the electric chair; the English multiple murderess who chopped up the bodies of children and scattered them from a plane; Rosemary West - unsuspecting dupe or cold-blooded killer; the mother who hired a killer to eliminate her daughter-in-law; Lizzie Borden - separating fact from fiction; Myra Hindley - Britain's most infamous murderess.
contents
1. AGRIPPINA Poison in Ancient Rome
2. MA BARKER Matriarch with a Machine Gun
3. ELVIRA BARNEY Laugh, Baby, Laugh
4. ADELAIDE BARTLETT Corsets and Chloroform
5. ELISABETH, COUNTESS BATHORY Countess Dracula
6. MARTHA BECK Trail of the Lonesome Hearts
7. KATE BENDER Bumps in the Night
8. LIZZIE BORDEN Far from the Old Folks at Home
9. CORDELIA BOTKIN The Poisoned Chocolate Case
10. MRS BRAVO Was it Accident or Suicide?
11. ELIZABETH BROWNRIGG A Cruel Mistress
12. MADAME de BRINVILLIERS The Age of Arsenic
13. CHARLOTTE BRYANT Poison in the West Country
14. CHARLOTTE CORDAY The Angel of the Assassination
15. MARY ANN COTTON Britain’s Mass Murderess
16. MRS DONALD The Aberdeen Child Murderer
17. CHRISTIANA EDMUNDS A Mad Woman in Love
18. RUTH ELLIS Jealous Woman with a Gun
19. MADAME FAHMY La Crime Passionel
20. MRS FAZEKAS The Power of Poison
21. IRMA GRESE “We Have No Pity”
22. BELLE GUNNESS Love with an Axe
23. MYRA HINDLEY Suffer Little Children
24. HÉLÈN JEGADO Mass Murder in Brittany
25. WINNIE RUTH JUDD Trunks for Two
26. ILSE KOCH “Merely a Housewife”
27. MADAME La FARGE A Cake as Large as a Plate
28. MARIA MANNING The Fashion in Black satin
29. MRS MAYBRICK Cruelly Wronged
30. SARAH METYARD “The Blood of Innocence”
31. THE PAPIN SISTERS The Housemaid’s Revenge
32. PAULINE PARKER and JULIET HULME “Let’s Kill Mother”
33. MRS PEARCEY Strong Nerves
34. LOUISE PEETE Dr Jekyll and Mrs Hyde
35. ALMA RATTENBURY Old Enough to be His Mother
36. VERA RENCZI The Crypt of Dead Lovers
37. MADELEINE SMITH Having Her Own Way
38. RUTH SNYDER The Iron Widow
39. MAGDALENA SOLIS The Cult of Human Sacrifice
40. EDITH THOMPSON Incitement to Murder?
41. La TOFFANA “Manna of Saint Nicholas”
42. MRS VERMILYA The Deadly Pepper Pot
43. La VOISIN Black Mass and Murder
44. DOROTHEA WADDINGHAM The Nightmare Nurse
45. JEANNE WEBER A Killer of Children
46. KATE WEBSTER Dead Woman’s Shoes
47. ROSEMARY WEST Keeping It in the Family
48. DR ZEO ZOE WILKINS The Vampire of Kansas City
49. AILEEN CAROL WUORNOS “Digging Up Bones”