Butcher's Work - True Crime Tales of American Murder and Madness (Paperback)

A Civil War veteran who perpetrated one of the most ghastly mass slaughters in the annals of U.S. crime. A nineteenth-century female serial killer whose victims included three husbands and six of her own children. A Gilded Age "Bluebeard" who did away with as many as fifty wives throughout the country. A decorated World War I hero who orchestrated a murder that stunned Jazz Age America. While other infamous homicides from the same eras-the Lizzie Borden slayings, for example, or the "thrill killing" committed by Leopold and Loeb-have entered into our cultural mythology, these four equally sensational crimes have largely faded from public memory. A quartet of gripping historical true-crime narratives, Butcher's Work restores these once-notorious cases to vivid, dramatic life.

General

Imprint:	University of Iowa Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2022
Authors:	Harold Schechter
Dimensions:	216 x 140mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	278
ISBN-13:	978-1-60938-853-9
Categories:	Books > Fiction > True stories > Crime
LSN:	1-60938-853-4
Barcode:	9781609388539

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