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A Dance with Death : Canadian Women on the Gallows, 1754-1954 by Frank Anderson (1996, Trade Paperback)

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- In a bizarre case in 1912, Minnie McGee poisoned six of her children by mixing the phosphorus tips off matches into their porridge. Her only explanation was that she was not feeling well. - Susan Kennedy was an ill-tempered woman. One day in 1879, her husband came home to find the body of Susan's friend Mary Gallagher in a poll of blood on the kitchen floor. Her severed head and one hand were in a pail beside it. - When Peter Napolitano was found in bed with his head cut off on Easter Sunday in 1911, neighbours remembered seeing his wife, Angelina, carefully sharpening an axe. - Sentenced to death in 1881, Geneviève Lafleur at age sixty-five was the oldest woman in Canada to face the gallows. She had callously convinced her sixteen-year-old stepson to kill his brother, Dan, so she could get her hands on the man's $300 life savings. - And in a crime unique in Canada, Marguerite Pitre - Canada's worst mass murderer - was involved in a diabolical plot in 1949 that took the lives of twenty-three people, although there was only one intended victim. There are forty-nine tales collected here of Canadian women convicted of murder and sentenced to death between colonial times and the mid-twentieth century. From the unfathomable murder of innocent children, to cold-blooded murder provoked by greed or lust, to the perhaps more understandable slaying of an abusive husband, and other unusual cases, these true stories tell of ordinary women who became infamous as a result of their involvement in tragic or heinous events. By turns sad, startling, gruesome, or strange, A Dance with Death reveals insights into the social mores of the times, the workings of Canada's criminal justice system, and attitudes towards women and capital punishment in their times. It also allows us a glimpse into the lives, the methods, and motives of Canada's female killers.

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Publisher
Fifth House Publishers
ISBN-10
1895618827
ISBN-13
9781895618822
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2679550

Product Key Features

Book Title
Dance with Death : Canadian Women on the Gallows, 1754-1954
Author
Frank Anderson
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Murder / General, Women's Studies, Penology
Publication Year
1996
Genre
True Crime, Social Science
Number of Pages
200 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
12 Oz

Additional Product Features

Number of Volumes
1 Vol.
Lc Classification Number
Hv6805.A53 1996
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
97-112262
Dewey Decimal
364.66/082/092271
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes

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