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Butcher's Work|Harold Schechter
Butcher's Work : True Crime Tales of American Murder and Madness
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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.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781609388539
  • ISBN-10: 1609388534
  • Publisher: University of Iowa Press
  • Publish Date: November 2022
  • Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.7 x 1.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.8 pounds
  • Page Count: 278

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