True Crime Book Club - Hell's Princess

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Book Discussion

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Adults

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Join us for a book discussion centered on true crime and its impact on society. Copies of the book will be available to check out from the Service Center 60 days before the event. We will be discussing Hell's Princess: the mystery of Belle Gunness, butcher of men by Harold Schechter. Registration is preferred, but walk-ins are welcome. Copies of the book will be available 60 days prior to the discussion and can be checked out at the Service Center.

Hell's Princess: the mystery of Belle Gunness, butcher of men by Harold Schechter

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.