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Lethal ladies

by Cheryl MacDonald · 2011

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Grace Marks, the Victorian servant who inspired Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace ... Elizabeth Workman, a Sarnia housewife who turned on her abusive husband and paid the price for it ... Evelyn Dick, a glamourous 1940s party girl who Hamiltonians still talk about ... These are just some of the murderers featured in Lethal Ladies, a collection of accounts of sensational true crimes motivated by fear, anger, passion and greed.

Subject
biographybiographyMore like thisLess of thistrue crimetrue crimeMore like thisLess of this
Themes
murdermurderMore like thisLess of thiswomenwomenMore like thisLess of this
Setting
CanadaCanadaMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
short · 124 pages

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