Tender Murderers: Women Who Kill

by Trina Robbins and Max Allan Collins

Book Overview

The did it for love or money...or both

Some of them fabled femme fatales of yesteryear. some headliners in yesterday's newspapers. Jean Harris, Ruth Snyder, Kate Bender, Belle Starr, Bonnie Parker, Phoolan Devi, Lizzie Borden, Grace Marks, Valerie Solanas, Amy Fisher and more true life who, where, why, when, and howdunnits. Bandit queens, gun molls, mothers, and widows (often selfmade) this array of reallife women who murdered makes for...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1573248215
• ISBN13: 9781573248211
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Conari Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 7.2"

Customer Reviews

Delightfully poisonous read

This is a delightful read: learn all about Belle Guiness, the homesteading murderess who planted her various lonely hearts suitors all along her farm; read about Dorothy Puente, the malevolent landlord who seemed to be a benevolent caretaker of the elderly by day, murderous, mercenary monster by night; and who can forget Lizzie Borden, Bonnie Parker and Charlotte Corday?Some of my favorites are mssing such as Caril Fugate and Myra Hindley, but by Robbins intent and design, she concentrated on women who acted alone without the influence of men. It's still a good read.