Full name: Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men

Author: Harold Schechter Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: True crime, Non Fiction, History, Biographies, Mystery, Crime Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781477808948 9781477808955 1477808949 1477808957

In the pantheon of serial killers, Belle Gunness stands alone. 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. Between 1902 and 1908, she lured a succession of unsuspecting victims to her Indiana "murder farm." Some were hired hands. Others were well-to-do bachelors. All of them vanished without a trace. When their bodies were dug up, they hadn't merely been poisoned, like victims of other female killers. They'd been butchered. 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. 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. Similar books: Deviant by Harold Schechter Deranged by Harold Schechter Lady Killers by Tori Telfer The Man from the Train by Bill James While They Slept by Kathryn Harrison Bestial by Harold Schechter Starvation Heights by Gregg Olsen Psycho USA by Harold Schechter Lost Girls by Robert Kolker The Midnight Assassin by Skip Hollandsworth H. H. Holmes by Adam Selzer A Wilderness of Error by Errol Morris The Cases That Haunt Us by John Douglas I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara Depraved by Harold Schechter The Mad Sculptor by Harold Schechter Fiend by Harold Schechter The Serial Killer Files by Harold Schechter Doctor Dealer by Mark Bowden American Kingpin by Nick Bilton