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Lady killers : deadly women throughout history
- Title
- Lady killers : deadly women throughout history / Tori Telfer ; [illustrations by Dame Darcy].
- Author
- Telfer, Tori
- Publication
- New York : Harper Perennial, [2017]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 17-6336 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Darcy, Dame, 1971-
- Description
- xvi, 316, 15 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
- Summary
- "In 1998, an FBI profiler infamously declared in a homicide conference, 'There are no female serial killers'--but Lady Killers offers fourteen creepy examples to the contrary."--Page 4 of cover.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- True crime stories.
- Note
- Includes interview, Q &A and other extra material.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-316, pages 14-15 (3rd set)).
- Contents
- The elusive population -- The blood countess: Erzsébet Báthory -- The giggling grandma: Nannie Doss -- The worst woman on earth: Lizzie Halliday -- Devil in the shape of a saint: Elizabeth Ridgeway -- Vipers: Raya and Sakina -- The wretched woman: Mary Ann Cotton -- The tormentor: Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova -- Iceberg Anna: Anna Marie Hahn -- The nightingale: Oum-El-Hassen -- High priestess of the Bluebeard clique: Tillie Klimek -- Sorceress of Kilkenny: Alice Kyteler -- Beautiful throat cutter: Kate Bender -- The angel makers of Nagyrév -- Queen of poisoners: Marie-Madeleine, the Marquise de Brinvilliers.
- Call Number
- JFD 17-6336
- ISBN
- 9780062433732
- 0062433733
- OCLC
- 1002903879
- Author
- Telfer, Tori, author.
- Title
- Lady killers : deadly women throughout history / Tori Telfer ; [illustrations by Dame Darcy].
- Publisher
- New York : Harper Perennial, [2017]
- Edition
- First edition
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-316, pages 14-15 (3rd set)).
- Added Author
- Darcy, Dame, 1971- illustrator.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 17-6336