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A silent, simmering killer terrorized New England in 1911. A heat wave unlike any that had come before killed people in the streets, caused others to drown in the waters where they sought relief, and drove still others to suicide. As more than 2,000 people died during the natural disaster, another silent killer began her own murderous spree. Amy Archer-Gilligan operated the Archer Home for Elderly People and Chronic Invalids in Windsor, Connecticut. What was thought to be a respectable busines! s run by a pioneering woman was exposed as little more than a murder factory. Amy would be accused of murdering both her husbands and dozens (as many as sixty) of her elderly patients with cocktails of lemonade and arsenic—all for money. She would be convicted and sentenced to hang, and her story would shock turn-of-the-century America and provide the inspiration for the Broadway sensation and classic film Arsenic and Old Lace. Acclaimed crime writer M. William Phelps has written the first book to tell the true story of greed and murder even more shocking than its fictional counterpart.
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Readers will enter a kind of Twilight Zone where a Bible-thumping caretaker and entrepreneur of the nursing home industry became one of history’s most evil female serial killers. With first-hand accounts from Amy’s Â"inmates,†riveting trial transcripts, and accounts from the investigative journalists who co! vered the case, Phelps puts readers face-to-face with a woman ! who was both a Black Widow and an Angel of Death. And Phelps paints a vivid, spine-chilling portrait of turn-of-the-century New England.
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This is historical true crime at its best.
The gripping tale of a legendary, century-old murder spree
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A silent, simmering killer terrorized New England in1911. As a terrible heat wave killed more than 2,000 people, another silent killer began her own murderous spree. That year a reporter for the Hartford Courant noticed a sharp rise in the number of obituaries for residents of a rooming house in Windsor, Connecticut, and began to suspect who was responsible: Amy Archer-Gilligan, who’d opened the Archer Home for Elderly People and Chronic Invalids four years earlier. Â"S! ister Amy†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.
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The Devil’s Rooming House is the first book about the life, times, and crimes of America’s most prolific female serial killer. In telling this fascinating story, M. William Phelps also paints a vivid portrait of early-twentieth-century New England.
The gripping tale of a legendary, century-old murder spree
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A silent, simmering killer terrorized New England in1911. As a terrible heat wave killed more than 2,000 people, another silent killer began her own murderous spree. That year a reporter for the Hartford ! Courant noticed a sharp rise in the number of obituaries f! or resid ents of a rooming house in Windsor, Connecticut, and began to suspect who was responsible: Amy Archer-Gilligan, who’d opened the Archer Home for Elderly People and Chronic Invalids four years earlier. Â"Sister Amy†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.
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The Devil’s Rooming House is the first book about the life, times, and crimes of America’s most prolific female serial killer. In telling this fascinating story, M. William Phelps also paints a vivid portrait of early-twentieth-century New England.
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"Devil's In The House Of The Rising Sun" - a full-length screenplay, revolves around a group of teenagers and their families in a small southern town. Legend has it that every fifty years, when the moon is full, an American ! Indian curse returns seeking retribution by wreaking havoc for the injustices that occurred over a century earlier. It's the first weekend after high school graduation. A lot is going on around town as the group of old friends decide what their going to do with their lives. There's also talk about a so-called curse arriving but no one actually believes it. "Devil's In The House Of The Rising Sun" is a coming-of-age horror story - mixing fear and humor, sadness and craziness and bursts of super-natural wicked excitement. The colorful characters and thought-provoking story-lines are based on the songs of legendary recording artist, Charlie Daniels. The screenplay climaxes to the Grammy Award winning song, "The Devil Went Down To Georgia".
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"Devil's In The House Of The Rising Sun" - a full-length screenplay, revolves around a group of teenagers and their families in a small southern town. Legend has it that every fifty years, when the moon is full, an American Indian ! curse returns seeking retribution by wreaking havoc for the in! justices that occurred over a century earlier. It's the first weekend after high school graduation. A lot is going on around town as the group of old friends decide what their going to do with their lives. There's also talk about a so-called curse arriving but no one actually believes it. "Devil's In The House Of The Rising Sun" is a coming-of-age horror story - mixing fear and humor, sadness and craziness and bursts of super-natural wicked excitement. The colorful characters and thought-provoking story-lines are based on the songs of legendary recording artist, Charlie Daniels. The screenplay climaxes to the Grammy Award winning song, "The Devil Went Down To Georgia".
Vanity Fair hired famous novelist Nick Thessalides to stay in a haunted country inn and write about it for their October issue. A weekend of secluded sun, fun, and sex sounds like paradise, so Nick is taking his lovers Andy and Oliver along. Nick’s best friend Serena, a celebrity photographer, and her bashful Iri! sh setter Stubing, are accompanying the boys to document their escapades. What could go wrong?
It’s all fun and games until a serial killer’s knife appears embedded in the floor of the hotel’s foyer. Cut off from the outside world, they decide there’s no choice but to solve the mystery, and the five investigators uncover clues that lead them to construct a trap. But will they capture a serial killer’s ghost, a scam artist, or something else entirely?Vanity Fair hired famous novelist Nick Thessalides to stay in a haunted country inn and write about it for their October issue. A weekend of secluded sun, fun, and sex sounds like paradise, so Nick is taking his lovers Andy and Oliver along. Nick’s best friend Serena, a celebrity photographer, and her bashful Irish setter Stubing, are accompanying the boys to document their escapades. What could go wrong?
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