| Devil's Rooming House: The True Story of America's Deadliest Female Serial Killer Contributor(s): Phelps, M. William (Author) |
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ISBN: 1599216019 ISBN-13: 9781599216010 Publisher: Lyons Press OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - True Crime | Murder - Serial Killers - History | United States - State & Local - New England (ct, Ma, Me, Nh, Ri, Vt) - History | United States - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 364.152 |
| LCCN: 2010001553 |
| Physical Information: 1.07" H x 6.56" W x 8.72" (1.18 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 - Geographic Orientation - Connecticut - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The gripping tale of a legendary, century-old murder spree *** A silent, simmering killer terrorized New England in1911. As a terrible heat wave killed more than 2,000 people, another silent killer began her own murderous spree. That year a reporter for the Hartford Courant noticed a sharp rise in the number of obituaries for residents of a rooming house in Windsor, Connecticut, and began to suspect who was responsible: Amy Archer-Gilligan, who'd opened the Archer Home for Elderly People and Chronic Invalids four years earlier. "Sister Amy" would be accused of murdering both of her husbands and up to sixty-six of her patients with cocktails of lemonade and arsenic; her story inspired the Broadway hit Arsenic and Old Lace. The Devil's Rooming House is the first book about the life, times, and crimes of America's most prolific female serial killer. In telling this fascinating story, M. William Phelps also paints a vivid portrait of early-twentieth-century New England. |