Lady killers : deadly women throughout history /

Serial killers are thought to be so universally, overwhelmingly male that in 1998, FBI profiler Roy Hazelwood infamously declared in a homicide conference "There are no female serial killers." Telfer delves into the reality of female aggression and predation with this compendium of female...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Telfer, Tori (Author)
Other Authors:	Darcy, Dame, 1971- (Illustrator)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Harper Perennial, [2017]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Women serial murderers. Serial murderers. Women serial murderers > Biography. Serial murderers > Biography. HISTORY / Women. TRUE CRIME / Murder / Serial Killers.

Table of Contents:

The elusive population
The blood countess: Erzsébet Báthory
The giggling grandma: Nannie Doss
The worst woman on earth: Lizzie Halliday
Devil in the shape of a saint: Elizabeth Ridgeway
Vipers: Raya and Sakina
The wretched woman: Mary Ann Cotton
The tormentor: Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova
Iceberg Anna: Anna Marie Hahn
The nightingale: Oum-El-Hassen
High priestess of the Bluebeard clique: Tillie Klimek
Sorceress of Kilkenny: Alice Kyteler
Beautiful throat cutter: Kate Bender
The angel makers of Nagyrév
Queen of poisoners: Marie-Madeleine, the Marquise de Brinvilliers.