Victorian Murderesses: A True History of Thirteen Respectable French and English Women Accused of Unspeakable Crimes by Mary S. Hartman

Victorian Murderesses: A True History of Thirteen Respectable French and English Women Accused of Unspeakable Crimes

Mary S. Hartman

318 pages first pub 1976 (editions)

nonfiction crime history true crime challenging informative slow-paced

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This riveting combination of true crime and social history examines a dozen cases from the 1800s involving thirteen French and English women charged with murder. Each incident was a cause c l bre, and this mixture of scandal and scholarship offer...

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