A deeply researched and morbidly fascinating chronicle of one of America\'s most notorious female killers.
The only definitive book on this notorious case and the first to reveal previously unknown information about its subject, Harold Schechter\'s gripping, suspenseful narrative has all the elements of a classic mystery--and all the gruesome twists of a nightmare..
Hell\'s Princess is a riveting account of one of the most sensational killing sprees in the annals of American crime: the shocking series of murders committed by the woman who came to be known as Lady Bluebeard.
They\'d been butchered.
When their bodies were dug up, they hadn\'t merely been poisoned, like victims of other female killers.
All of them vanished without a trace.
Others were well-to-do bachelors.
Some were hired hands.
Between 1902 and 1908, she lured a succession of unsuspecting victims to her Indiana murder farm.
She was the rarest of female psychopaths, a woman who engaged in wholesale slaughter, partly out of greed but mostly for the sheer joy of it.
In the pantheon of serial killers, Belle Gunness stands alone. -- The New York Times Book Review An Amazon Charts bestseller.
A deeply researched and morbidly fascinating chronicle of one of America\'s most notorious female killers
