![]() 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. ![]() When their bodies were dug up, they hadn’t merely been poisoned, like victims of other female killers. Between 19, she lured a succession of unsuspecting victims to her Indiana “murder farm.” Some were hired hands. 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. ![]() “A deeply researched and morbidly fascinating chronicle of one of America’s most notorious female killers.” - The New York Times Book Review ![]()
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