Killer Ladies: Lethal Women in History, by Tori Telfer

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That homicide has no gender is unquestionable. Until our days they could come Oswald, the assassin with his book of The catcher in the rye under the arm, or the York Ripper or even "The Wolf of Moscow." But yes, there are also women who love the most treacherous crime or blood for blood's sake to make a collection of corpses out of their masterpiece. Tori telfer He tells us ...

A suggestive compilation of lethal ladies, endowed with a vitriolic black humor, that rescues from oblivion to fourteen mistresses of crime who made gory an art: baking delicious cakes with surprise, wielding the knife with deadly skill, or administering sibylline poisons to proof of autopsy.


When talking about the deadliest criminals in history, we always think of Jack the Ripper, Ted Bundy or John Wayne Gacy. In fact, in 1998, the FBI claimed that serial killers "didn't exist." But what about the infamous Countess Erzsébet Báthory - nicknamed "the Bloody Countess" -, Mary Ann Cotton - virtuous of "arsenic without compassion" -, Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova - "the Russian Torturer" -, Nannie Doss - » Laughing Granny »- by Alice Kyteler -» the Sorceress of Kilkenny »- or by Kate Bender -» the Beautiful Neck Slicer »-?

Ingenious and equipped with an approach that corners the easy explanations ("he did it for love", "it is a hormonal matter", "an evil man forced him to do it") and the macho platitudes ("she was a femme fatale or a witch" ), this illuminating study glosses over the aggressive and predatory activities that the most lethal women have bequeathed to us for posterity.

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