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  • WOMEN WHO KILL by Jones, Ann
    Jones, Ann
    WOMEN WHO KILL

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - Classic study of women murderers in the US - but also a social history of women in America from colonial times to the present, told thru the often tragic or desperate stories of women on the very edge of society - women driven to kill. Among the women are Belle Gunness, Lizzie Borden, Ruth Snyder, Alice Crimmins and dozens of unknown women. 408 pgs including index, notes on sources. ISBN: 0-03-0407117.

    Condition: Very good in a good only dust jacket (sunning to spine of dj, short closed tears and overall edgewear to dj).

    Book ID: 61981
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  • SEE WHAT I HAVE DONE. by Schmidt, Sarah
    Schmidt, Sarah
    SEE WHAT I HAVE DONE.

    Edition: 2nd printing.

    New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2017). SIGNED hardcover - Australian author's first novel, one which reimagines one of the most famous unsolved murders of the 19th century, one which inspired the children's rhyme "Lizzie Borden took an axe/ and gave her mother 40 whacks...." Lizzie was arrested and tried for the murder, but acquited by the jury. "On the morning of August 4, 1892, Lizzie Borden calls out to her maid: 'Someone's killed Father.' The brutal ax-murder of Andrew and Abby Borden in their home in Fall River, Massachusetts, left little evidence and many unanswered questions. . . Shifting among the perspectives of the unreliable Lizzie, her older sister Emma, the housemaid Bridget, and the enigmatic stranger Benjamin, the…

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    New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2017). SIGNED hardcover - Australian author's first novel, one which reimagines one of the most famous unsolved murders of the 19th century, one which inspired the children's rhyme "Lizzie Borden took an axe/ and gave her mother 40 whacks...." Lizzie was arrested and tried for the murder, but acquited by the jury. "On the morning of August 4, 1892, Lizzie Borden calls out to her maid: 'Someone's killed Father.' The brutal ax-murder of Andrew and Abby Borden in their home in Fall River, Massachusetts, left little evidence and many unanswered questions. . . Shifting among the perspectives of the unreliable Lizzie, her older sister Emma, the housemaid Bridget, and the enigmatic stranger Benjamin, the events of that fateful day are slowly revealed through a high-wire feat of storytelling." SIGNED on the title page. 328 pp. ISBN: 978-0802126597.

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    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 71540
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