Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men by Harold Schechter

Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men

Harold Schechter

334 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction biography history true crime dark mysterious slow-paced
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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 success...

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tense 16%
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emotional 5%
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funny 1%

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