Hells Princess, Harold Schechter
Hells Princess, Harold Schechter
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Hell's Princess
The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men

Author: Harold Schechter

Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner

Unabridged: 8 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 04/01/2018

Synopsis

“A deeply researched and morbidly fascinating chronicle of one of America’s most notorious female killers.” —The New York Times Book ReviewAn 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.

About Harold Schechter

Harold Schechter is an American true-crime writer who specializes in serial killers. Twice nominated for the Edgar Award, he is the author of the nonfiction books Fatal, Fiend, Bestial, Deviant, Deranged, Depraved, The Serial Killer Files, The Mad Sculptor, and Man-Eater. Schechter attended the State University of New York in Buffalo, where he earned his PhD under the direction of Leslie Fiedler. He is a professor of American literature and popular culture at Queens College of the City University of New York. Schechter is married to poet Kimiko Hahn and has two daughters, the writer Lauren Oliver and professor of philosophy Elizabeth Schechter.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nicole on March 07, 2018

This book was a well-researched compilation of facts and rumors heretofore only available through a patchwork of different readings and articles. I appreciate the attention to details, court records, and even word of mouth from the time period- no aspect of the crime went unattended to. Truth be tol......more

Goodreads review by Misty Marie on February 02, 2022

Belle Gunness, aka Lady Bluebeard, was a serial killer long before the term was ever known. Between 1902-1908, she lured unsuspecting men to her farm in Indiana. Some worked for her, some came under the guise of pending marriage. One by one, they disappeared, never to be heard from again. When her "......more

Goodreads review by Tasha on March 03, 2018

So 40% of this kindle book was references! Overall this was a great telling of Mrs Gunness’ life and impact on society at the time. My one problem was the author’s overuse of ‘Nigger Liz’ throughout and explaining that that was what she was known as at the time each time he used the slur. Mrs Gunnes......more

Goodreads review by Katie on October 09, 2018

3.5 stars I've read a lot of true crime books over the years, and I have to say this is one of the more bizarre cases. In the early 1900s, Belle Gunness lured unsuspecting men to her Indiana "murder farm". And these men vanished without a trace, that is until their butchered remains were eventually f......more

Goodreads review by Chandra on April 02, 2018

If you've read my reviews before, you know I'm not the biggest fan of non-fiction or history.... except when it comes to true crime and the like. I was SO excited for this book. I have done countless research on serial killers when I was younger as I had a bit of an obsession (still do but less rese......more

Quotes

“In Harold Schechter’s lucid and well-researched Hell’s Princess, Gunness—his ruthless, devious protagonist and, according to the book’s subtitle, a ‘butcher of men’—deserves a prominent place in the annals of America’s serial killers.” —Wall Street Journal“Hell’s Princess takes 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, grounded in meticulous historical research, confirms his reputation as one of the top true-crime writers of our time.” —Psychology Today“With riveting and thorough detail, Schechter tracks the mystery of Lamphere’s culpability in the arson and closes with a possibly related murder that took place decades after the 1908 house fire. True-crime fans will be hooked from the start.” —Publishers Weekly

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