Hell's Princess
The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men
by Harold Schechter
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Pub Date Sep 25 2018 | Archive Date Not set
Description
“A deeply researched and morbidly fascinating chronicle of one of America’s most notorious female killers.” —The New York Times Book Review
An Amazon Charts bestseller.
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.
A Note From the Publisher
Advance Praise
“Hell’s Princess can take its place among Schechter’s other true-crime classics as the definitive rendering of one of the most beguiling and brutal of all female serial killers. His gruesome page-turner about Belle Gunness, grounded in meticulous historic research, confirms his reputation as one of the top true-crime writers of our time.” —Katherine Ramsland, bestselling author of Confession of a Serial Killer
“Harold Schechter’s Hell’s Princess had me on the edge of my seat to the last page! Like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Hound of the Baskervilles, Schechter’s hound that is always ready to pounce is Belle Gunness, America’s most notorious female serial killer. Schechter’s achievement is humanizing this inhuman monster, while making us feel the neediness and loneliness urging Belle’s victims to give up everything to get into her bed. How the case ultimately turns out is a seminal event in jurisprudence, [portrayed here] by one of America’s greatest storytellers and historians.” —Fred Rosen, author of Murdering the President: Alexander Graham Bell and the Race to Save James Garfield
“Harold Schechter demonstrates why he is the dark prince master of American true-crime history, in this first definitive account of notorious female serial killer Belle Gunness and her ‘human slaughterhouse murder farm.’” —Peter Vronsky, author of Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781477808948 |
| PRICE | $14.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 334 |
