Black Widow: The True Story of Australia's First Female Serial Killer

✍ Scribed by Baxter, Carol

• Book ID: 108106745
• Publisher: Allen & Unwin
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781743315019

✦ Synopsis

'Never before in the hundred year history of Australia has a female prisoner become so notorious as Louisa Collins.' - Evening News..Two inquests, four trials, three hung juries and the executioner...but was Louisa Collins really a husband killer? Was she the callous adulteress, drunkard and liar known as the Botany Bay Murderess and the Lucrezia Borgia of Botany Bay? Or was this mother of seven a spirited and defiant woman who was punished for breaching society's expectations of womanly behaviour?..Compelling, freshly told and richly detailed, Black Widow uncovers the truth of a story that challenged the morality, the politics and the notion of law in an Australia on the edge of nationhood...