The angel makers arsenic, a midwife, and modern history's most astonishing murder ring
"The horror occurred in a rustic farming enclave in modern-day Hungary. To look at the unlikely lineup of murderesses--village wives, mothers, and daughters--was to come to the shocking realization that this could have happened anywhere, and to anyone. At the center of it all was a sharp-minded...
| Main Author: | McCracken, Patti (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
[2023]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I:
- The murders 1916-1925. Two graves and a girl to marry
- Homecoming
- A deadly flu, a fallen kingdom, a foiled plan
- "Sing, my dear boy!"
- A doctor's suspicions
- By any means, and magic
- Judge's loss
- A hast christening
- Eight crying orphans
- Forging ahead
- Part II:
- The investigation 1929. Mr. Éber's secret
- Your anonymously (again)
- May Day festival
- "The gendarmes are here!"
- A case for Kronberg
- "Nagyrév is the hornet's nest"
- Cucumber season, no more
- An air of guilt
- Up in the loft
- The great honeypot
- Vigil
- Goose girls and open graves
- Old Man Cser
- An unburdening
- A rescue, and resolve
- A populace seethes, a prosecutor schemes
- Undercover, under bed
- One mad dash
- "Forgive the sins of those who obeyed Satan"
- Coda: Top hats and gowns, and to the gallows she goes
- The aftermath
- Postscript.