Deadly Australian Women

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: ABC Books
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2013
Edition: First Edition

Description: 359 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Do women kill Yes they do, but often for very different reasons to men…Meet the women who have murdered theyve killed children, husbands, lovers, relatives and friends. They include the desperate, the poor, the abused, the sexually betrayed, and the downright callous. In some cases they were motivated by fear of societys disapproval, in others they acted to save themselves from violence. Among their number were early backyard abortionists like Madame Olga and Madame Harper, poisoners like Maria Marek and Yvonne Fletcher, women who committed infanticide like Keli Lane, women who formed lovers pacts to murder their husbands and women whose troubled lives on the margins like transgendered Eugenia Falleni/Harry Crawford led them almost inevitably to crime.In her first, best-selling book, Notorious Australian Women, author Kay Saunders profiled some of the countrys most scandalous women. Here she turns her eye to those who have broken one of societys most cherished taboos and become both notorious and deadly....

ISBN: 9780733332104