| Description |
xv, 303 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-293) and index. |
| Contents |
Note to the reader -- Prologue: Simmering death -- Part 1: Silent Killers -- 1: Matron and the reporter -- 2: Quiet menace -- 3: Silent killers -- 4: Humble beginnings -- 5: Devout Christian -- 6: Left behind -- 7: Bible thumper -- 8: Thousands overcome -- 9: Forecasting the weather is no science -- 10: Biggest boardinghouse in New England -- 11: Cold storage -- 12: Red skies at night -- 13: Beginning of Franklin's end -- Part 2: Investigation & Innovation -- 14: They come and they go -- 15: Death at first sight -- 16: Last good-bye -- 17: Death by marriage -- 18: Sweet little Amy -- 19: Con -- 20: Red falcon -- 21: I can fix that all right -- 22: Wrong victim -- 23: Fit as a fiddle -- 24: Public service -- 25: Too late -- 26: Done to death -- 27: May the curse of God come down on you -- 28: Poison control -- 29: Facts -- 30: Grave robbers -- 31: Motive -- 32: In the dead of night -- 33: Oh, what a beautiful mourning -- 34: Murder factory -- Part 3: Trials & Tribulations -- 35: Changing world -- 36: Greatest success -- 37: Witch of Windsor -- 38: Victory for the vanquished -- 39: Experts -- 40: Dark murder hole -- 41: Drug addict -- 42: One last trick -- 43: Arsenic and old lace -- Epilogue: Whatever happened to Amy? -- Acknowledgments -- Endnotes -- Selected bibliography -- Selected essays & documents -- Index -- About the author. |
| Summary |
Synopsis: A silent, simmering killer terrorized New England in 1911. As a terrible heat wave killed more than 2,000 people, another silent killer began her own murderous spree. "Sister Amy" Archer-Gilligan, who'd opened the Archer Home for Elderly People and Chronic Invalids four years earlier, would be accused of murdering both of her husbands and up to sixty-six of her patients with cocktails of lemonade and arsenic; her story inspired the Broadway hit Arsenic and Old Lace. |
| Local Note |
WNDSR--This book is the gift of the Windsor/Windsor Locks Rotary in honor of Al Boehm. |
| Subject |
Archer-Gilligan, Amy, 1873-1962.
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Women serial murderers -- Connecticut -- Windsor.
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Murder -- Connecticut -- Windsor -- History.
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| ISBN |
9781599216010 (hardback) |
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1599216019 (hardback) |
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9780762770250 (paperback) |
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0762770252 (paperback) |
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