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Also by Harold Schechter:

Maniac, March 2021
Trade Size / e-Book
Ripped from the Headlines!, July 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men, April 2018
Hardcover / e-Book
Man-eater: The Life and Legend of an American Cannibal, August 2015
Paperback / e-Book
The Mad Sculptor, February 2014
Hardcover / e-Book

HELL'S PRINCESS: THE MYSTERY OF BELLE GUNNESS, BUTCHER OF MEN
By: Harold Schechter

Little A
April 2018
On Sale: April 1, 2018
316 pages
ISBN: 1477808957
EAN: 9781477808955
Kindle: B06XFS39KS
Hardcover / e-Book
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Historical | True Crime

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.