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the poisonous life of a female serial killer

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Fatal

the poisonous life of a female serial killer

1st Pocket books.
  • 0 Ratings
  • 13 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
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Offers a chilling account of the murderous career of Jane Toppan, a proper New England matron and seemingly devoted nurse who poisoned more than one hundred people during her tenure at a Massachusetts hospital in the 1890s.

Publish Date
Publisher
Pocket Star Books
Language
English
Pages
309

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Fatal: the poisonous life of a female serial killer
2003, Pocket Star Books
in English - 1st Pocket books.
Cover of: Fatal
Fatal : The Poisonous Life of a Female Serial Killer
July 1, 2003, Pocket Star
Mass Market Paperback in English - 1st Pocket Books edition

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Published in

New York

Edition Notes

Genre
Case studies., Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
364.15/23/0820974, 364.152/3/09744, B
Library of Congress
HV6533.M4 S34 2003, HV6248

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxi, 309 p. :
Number of pages
309

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3317524M
ISBN 10
0671014501
LCCN
2004266494
OCLC/WorldCat
52526112
Library Thing
466793
Goodreads
421372

Work Description

In an era that produced some of the most vicious female sociopaths in American history, Jane Toppan would become the most notorious of them all.

AN ANGEL OF MERCY

In 1891, Jane Toppan, a proper New England matron, embarked on a profession as a private-duty nurse. Selfless and good-natured, she beguiled Boston's most prominent families. They had no idea what they were welcoming into their homes....

A DEVIL IN DISGUISE

No one knew of Jane's past; of her mother's tragic death, of her brutal upbringing in an adoptive home, of her father's insanity, or of her own suicide attempts. No one could have guessed that during her tenure at a Massachusetts hospital the amiable "Jolly Jane" was morbidly obsessed with autopsies, or that she conducted her own after-hours experiments on patients, deriving sexual satisfaction in their slow, agonizing deaths from poison. Self-schooled in the art of murder, Jane Toppan was just beginning her career -- and she would indulge in her true calling victim by victim to become the most prolific domestic fiend of the nineteenth century.

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