Belle Gunness: The Lady Bluebeard

by Janet L. Langlois

Book Overview

The Guinness Book of World Records has in twelve editions listed Belle Gunness under the category "Most Prolific Murderers." She earned the epithet the Lady Bluebeard because she is believed to have killed as many as twenty spouses. She settled on a farm on the outskirts of LaPorte, Indiana, in 1901. Over the next seven years it is believed that she killed a husband, children, and an indeterminate number of would-be suitors who answered...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253311578
• ISBN13: 9780253311573
• Release Date: October 1985
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher