Lizzie the Story of Lizzie Borden [Hardcover]

Frank Spiering (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 242 pages
• Publisher: Dorset Press (1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0880296852
• ISBN-13: 978-0880296854
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 6.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #471,309 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A Novel Solution, January 9, 2001

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A Customer - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lizzie (Hardcover)

The author investigated the unsolved mystery of the Borden Murders by reading the trial transcripts, newspapers, interviews, and the statements of witnesses. He invented a surprise solution: Emma did it! I can't believe his conclusion.

His book is worth reading because of all the background information he provides about the case, including some pictures not seen in earlier books. It provides more information on Emma and the aftermath of the trial than in previous books. It tells of the vicious campaign by the Fall River GLOBE against Lizzie, altho the Providence JOURNAL's editorial after the trial was more damning: "if she knows who did it, why doesn't she speak out?". Spieing (p.197) repeats the story of the 1897 confession altho E. Radin's book exposed it as a forgery in 1961, which he admits in his Notes (p.237).

The best books are still Arnold R. Brown's masterpiece (which solved the crime), and David Kent's book of background material. Edmund Pearson's book is not generally available, nor is Edward Radin's (a crime reporter for a major NYC newspaper).

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Truthfully incisive, February 9, 2000

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Holly Rebello-Hebert (Fall RIver, Massachusetts USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lizzie (Hardcover)

Residing in Fall River, Massachusetts, makes you curious as to whether the house is haunted. If that is true, what kind of recount would the walls tell? No one knows for sure what happened that hot morning of August 4, 1892 in the home of Andrew and Abbie Borden, with the exception of those who were there, but no is alive from that time in history, to tell us. The city of Fall River was divided in half, supporting Lizzie's innocence and those who firmly believed in her guilt. We, are only left to speculate and to judge Lizzie for ourselves. A true American "Unsolved Mystery".

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars well-written but full of implausible theory, August 5, 2005

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I ain't no porn writer (author, "Crippled Dreams") - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lizzie (Hardcover)

This is a well-written account of the Borden case that nevertheless plays fast and loose with the facts. Written almost in a novelistic style. Indeed, there are times when one forgets he is reading what is supposed to be non-fiction. The author theorizes that Emma killed the elder Bordens.

David Rehak
author of "Did Lizzie Borden Axe For It?"