Mad Madame LaLaurie, Victoria Cosner Love
Mad Madame LaLaurie, Victoria Cosner Love
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Mad Madame LaLaurie
New Orleans' Most Famous Murderess Revealed

Author: Victoria Cosner Love, Lorelei Shannon

Narrator: Tiffany Morgan

Unabridged: 4 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/28/2020


Synopsis

The truth behind the legend of New Orleans's infamous slave owner, madwoman, and murderess, portrayed in the anthology series, American Horror Story.

On April 10, 1834, firefighters smashed through a padlocked attic door in the burning Royal Street mansion of Creole society couple Delphine and Louis Lalaurie. In the billowing smoke and flames they made an appalling discovery: the remains of Madame Lalaurie's chained, starved, and mutilated slaves. This house of horrors in the French Quarter spawned a legend that has endured for more than one-hundred-and-fifty years.

But what actually happened in the Lalaurie home? Rumors about her atrocities spread as fast as the fire. But verifiable facts were scarce. Lalaurie wouldn't answer questions. She disappeared, leaving behind one of the French Quarter's ghastliest crime scenes, and what is considered to be one of America's most haunted houses.

About Victoria Cosner Love

Victoria Cosner Love has been involved with museums and historic sites for over thirty years. She holds a master's degree in American studies, specializing in cemetery landscapes and is a member of the Association for Gravestone Studies. She is coauthor, with Lorelei Shannon, of Mad Madame LaLaurie and Missouri's Mad Doctor McDowell.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Aimée on November 29, 2011

Really disappointed. Choppy, shoddy writing, almost like they Frankensteined it together. Good facts, but presented in that run-of-the-mill history textbook way. I wish it wasn't so bland. I also hate that they introduce a topic, then add a parenthetical "For more information on this topic, read cha......more

Goodreads review by Alice on December 22, 2011

What I sincerely appreciated about Love’s and Shannon’s expose was the concerted effort to enlighten the reader on both the facts and fiction of the Lalaurie legend. What I was – at times – disappointed in was the execution. Although I live only a few hours from New Olreans and have traveled there o......more

Goodreads review by Bunny on August 18, 2011

I'm impressed. I didn't think it was possible to make a book about a famed Creole murderess horribly dry. These authors succeeded. Not a bad book overall, but they spend 4% of the book discussing the folk lore, 95% of the book explaining why it's wrong, and how Lalaurie wasn't really the bad guy, and......more

Goodreads review by Sharon on July 18, 2016

This slim volume (144 pages) claims to reveal the complete truth about Delphine McCarty Lalaurie, one of the most infamous women in New Orleans' colorful history. Never mind that this seems unlikely in such a slim volume ... the fact is that the authors reach a number of conclusions that may or may......more

Goodreads review by Fishface on January 26, 2016

This was quite a short read, and frustratingly incomplete in some ways -- the authors are wont to say "we have proved" when they haven't proved the point at all, just made an educated guess. But with that said, this is a fascinating character from a period of history I know almost nothing about. Did......more