Mammoth Book of Women Who Kill (Mammoth Books) [Paperback]

R Glyn Jones (Author)

Book Description

Series: Mammoth Books | Publication Date: January 24, 2002

From the Florida roadside prostitute and first convicted serial killer Aileen Wuornos to the Empress poisoner of ancient Rome, this is the biggest collection of the world's most dangerous women newly revised and expanded, including: Ruth Snyder, the last woman in the US to go to the electric chair; the English multiple murderess who chopped up the bodies of children and scattered them from a plane; Rosemary West - unsuspecting dupe or cold-blooded killer; the mother who hired a killer to eliminate her daughter-in-law; Lizzie Borden - separating fact from fiction; and, Myra Hindley - Britain's most infamous murderess.

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About the Author

Richard Glyn Jones is a journalist and writer He lives in North London.

Product Details

• Paperback: 512 pages
• Publisher: Robinson Publishing; 2nd edition (January 24, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1841193887
• ISBN-13: 978-1841193885
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 1.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #629,236 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Embarrassed for them!, March 26, 2005

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Sheila Brothers "sheila_brothers" (Wilmington, NC) - See all my reviews
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This is the worst edited and written book I have ever read in my lifetime. Solely due to the fact that I didn't have anything else in the house to read, I painstakingly read a few chapters and after three or four pages, I broke out the red pen. I am thinking of returning my edited version back to the publisher.

8 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not the way to write a book, March 15, 2004

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Jorge Frid (Mexico City) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mammoth Book of Women Who Kill (Mammoth Books) (Paperback)

Some stories of the book are terrifying, some are boring and many of them are alike, some of the killers are important celebrities, some of them just kill once and some of them kill just a dozen, but when you finish the book you won't care anything about these killers, why? Because when you read 10 or 15 stories you will know how will be the next story in this book. RGJ wrote to many stories just because all of the killers were women and he wanted to write many pages, but he might write just the celebrities or the serial killers, but he went through the past and if he found a woman who kills somebody he just wrote it in the book, that is not the way to write a book.