| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 216 pages) |
| Contents |
""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""About the author""; ""Introduction: Searching for Mary Ann Cotton""; ""Thinking About Female Serial Killers""; ""From Criminology to History""; ""Questions of Gender""; ""Early Days""; ""The Mining Villages of East Northumberland""; ""Murton""; ""Northern Murders""; ""Deceptive Appearances""; ""The Importance of Early Influences?""; ""Seaham Harbour, Sunderland and Nursing""; ""Records and Registers""; ""Back to Sunderland as a Nurse""; ""Husband Number Two���George Ward""; ""Husband Number Three���James Robinson"" |
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""€?I did not wish to part from him�""""The Wandering Months""; ""A Death too Far""; ""West Auckland and the Murder of Joseph Nattrass""; ""Arsenic""; ""Business as Usual""; ""The Coroner�s Inquiry""; ""A Series of Court Appearances and a Trial""; ""Magistrates� Hearings""; ""Dr Thomas Scattergood""; ""Scattergood and the West Auckland Arsenic Cases""; ""Durham Spring Assizes""; ""An Execution""; ""Public Spectacles and Private Rituals""; ""William Calcraft""; ""Mary Ann�s Last Few Days""; ""Hanged by the Neck Until Dead""; ""Disappearing from View and Becoming Unseen"" |
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""Body Count""""Cotton as a Serial Killer""; ""Cotton as a Woman and as a Serial Killer""; ""Jack the Ripper""; ""Their Differing Styles���Their Differing Infamy?""; ""Antisocial Personality Disorder and the Psychopath""; ""A Summing Up""; ""Murder Grew With Her���On the Trail of Mary Ann Cotton1""; ""Was Mary Ann Cotton a Psychopath?""; ""Index""; ""Back cover"" |
| Summary |
Exploding myths that every serial killer is a 'monster', the author draws attention to Mary Ann Cotton's charms, allure, capability, skill and ambition - all of which she used to remain undetected while committing up to 21 murders |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Cotton, Mary Ann, 1832-1873.
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| SUBJECT |
Cotton, Mary Ann, 1832-1873 fast |
| Subject |
Poisoning -- England -- Durham (County) -- Case studies
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TRUE CRIME -- Murder -- General.
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Poisoning
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England -- Durham (County)
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1908162309 |
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9781908162304 |
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