| Description |
1 online resource (270 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Butcher's work -- The poison fiend -- Lady-killer -- The ragged stranger. |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Serial murders -- United States -- History.
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Serial murderers -- United States -- History.
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Murder -- United States -- History.
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Murderers -- United States -- History.
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TRUE CRIME / General |
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Murder. |
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Murderers. |
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Serial murderers. |
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Serial murders. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Schechter, Harold. Butcher's work Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2022] 9781609388539 (DLC) 2022008973 |
| ISBN |
1609388542 electronic book |
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9781609388546 (electronic bk.) |
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9781609388539 paperback |
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