The Devil Rooming House The True Story of America Deadliest Female Serial Killer (Audible Audio Edition) M William Phelps Eddie Frierson LLC M William Phelps Books
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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 business 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 60) 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 and New York Times best-selling author M. William Phelps has written the first book to tell the true story of greed and murder even more shocking than its fictional counterpart.
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 "inmates", riveting trial transcripts, and accounts from the investigative journalists who covered 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.
This is historical true crime at its best.
The Devil Rooming House The True Story of America Deadliest Female Serial Killer (Audible Audio Edition) M William Phelps Eddie Frierson LLC M William Phelps Books
I was lured into this book by the subtitle. Female serial killers are so rare, especially one that was killing people 100 years ago, that I decided to give this book a go. Unfortunately, this book turned out to be just OK. The story, while interesting, wasn't all that compelling. I didn't really care for the way the story was told, either. The author drug the story out longer than was necessary and there was a ton of detail about the weather and how hot it was during the summer of 1911. I'm sorry, but I don't really care how hot it was. It added nothing to the story other than to make it longer.I think Phelps was trying to be very Truman Capote In Cold Blood with this book, and it just wasn't that kind of tale and it didn't work.
I can't honestly say I would recommend this book. If you are a die hard true crime fan and want to read this book, get a copy from the library.
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The Devil Rooming House The True Story of America Deadliest Female Serial Killer (Audible Audio Edition) M William Phelps Eddie Frierson LLC M William Phelps Books Reviews
I liked this book very much. I had heard of Amy Archer Gilligan but had not read a book about her before this one and it was well written and easy to follow. Phelps has written some great books. He approaches them from more of a "psychological" vantage than the normal "guts and gore" type of writing but I like that. It is intriguing and it's interesting how Archer-Gilligan was able to pull off the things she did.
I recommend this if you like true crime
I picked up this book for my kindle for only $2.99 and I was glad that was all I paid for it. I'm now about 1/2 way through and it's just now getting interesting. I didn't understand why the author chose to spend about 1/4 of the start of the book about the "hot" wave of July 1911. It was interesting background but it had NOTHING to do with the story.
There is also quite a bit of background about one of the inmates that spans several years, most of it repetitive, but hardly any background about the second husband. I also have yet to find out what happened to his estate which for a couple of chapters of the book her upcoming probate case was used as motive in one of her killings then nothing else.
I agree with most of the reviewers that it was disjointed at times, repetitive in some of it's points, and really needed some editing. I'm happy with it for the most part, but only because of the low price tag.
When buying this book I though I was going to get a book about this serial killer. But I'm on Chapter 7 and have read more info on the heat wave than the killer or victims. Phelps jumps around between the both topics and rambles on and on - it's giving me a headache. This is the second book in a row that I've read by Phelps and the other one was tortuous to read too. Took me a week to get through it and I had to force myself to finish it. I have other books by Phelps and I don't remember them being as bad as his last two. His newest book LOVE HER TO DEATH starts off good and then get tedious in the middle without ever learning much about the people involved. Just a superficial book with no work on background. Very disappointed in both books. I should have checked the author's name when buying this book at .
This is a shocking, true story of methodical murder (by poisoning) for financial profit. The author has obviously put much love and effort into this project, and it shows in the pages of the book. I would recommend this book for anyone who enjoys reading true stories about real people from the past. Having read all the reviews, I agree in part that sometimes it seemed a bit tedious, yet it is worth the read. The heat wave, mentioned in other reviews, was cited by the author as a distraction away from what was happening at the Archer Home, in the same time period. People were suffering from the heat wave and thus paying less attention to happenings outside their own personal spheres of existence, which allowed Amy to do her work without closer scrutiny by her neighbors, acquaintances, and peers, for a longer period of time than might have been if the heat wave had not occurred.
This is probably one of the most boring books I've ever read. It's poorly written and confusing. Even though I tried since I'd paid money for this, I could not get through it and ended up giving up on it- this even at the most important part of the book, Amy's arrest.
The first several chapters spend time detailing a heat wave that has no relevance to the plot at hand, and then the heat wave disappears suddenly, never mentioned again. I'm assuming the author was attempting to draw a correlation between the heat wave and Amy Archer's actions, but it is poorly done and the amount of attention spent on the heat wave is considerably greater than the amount of time spent on the characters themselves.
The author also repeats himself quite a bit, belaboring a point time and time again. It gets to the point where you can skip whole pages because it is another version of something you'd read ten pages prior, which itself was something you'd read ten pages prior to that.
It's a shame this book was executed so poorly because it is of an interesting subject matter, and you learn a great deal from what is presented, but it's a tough read to slog through for a little bit of interesting material.
What a great story! A female serial killer in the early years of the 20th century. What a disappointing treatment! I am a bit of a stickler for appropriate grammar and this book did not even come close to my standards. The author loves sentence fragments, anachronistic idioms, and editorial asides ("Huh?"). Besides that, he spends a huge amount of time discussing the effects of the 1911 summer heat wave, a topic which deserves its own book but is completely irrelevant to the history of Amy Archer-Gilligan.
Where Phelps shines is the character descriptions. He is clearly in his element describing the lives of the victims and investigators. Franklin Andrews and Carl Goslee come to life in the pages; however, Phelps also indulges in much rhetorical speculation "He must have thought ..." and "Clearly, she was furious ..." which also detracts from a serious tone of the book.
All that said, the story is fascinating and the accounts of the heat wave and the government's response, while irrelevant, are also gripping.
I was lured into this book by the subtitle. Female serial killers are so rare, especially one that was killing people 100 years ago, that I decided to give this book a go. Unfortunately, this book turned out to be just OK. The story, while interesting, wasn't all that compelling. I didn't really care for the way the story was told, either. The author drug the story out longer than was necessary and there was a ton of detail about the weather and how hot it was during the summer of 1911. I'm sorry, but I don't really care how hot it was. It added nothing to the story other than to make it longer.
I think Phelps was trying to be very Truman Capote In Cold Blood with this book, and it just wasn't that kind of tale and it didn't work.
I can't honestly say I would recommend this book. If you are a die hard true crime fan and want to read this book, get a copy from the library.
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