Tuesday, March 8, 2011

The Devil's Rooming House by M. William Phelps

303 pages
4 hours

The subtitle is: the true story of America's deadliest female serial killer. During the summer of 1911 in New England over 2,000 people died of the heat. In Amy Archer-Gilligan's Archer Home for Elderly People and Chronic Invalids, more people died from drinking lemonade laced with arsenic. "Sister Amy" was convicted of killing both of her husbands and sixty-six of her patients, although some of her patients may have actually died of natural causes. Her daughter insisted her very religious mother was being framed, but Amy was really a greedy drug addict. She even had her patients going to the general store to purchase the rat poison that killed them. After four years in prison, she was declared insane and lived the rest of her eighty-seven years in a mental hospital.

Mary

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