To read the rest of this interesting and extensive review, Click me Crime Traveller, reviewed by Fiona GuyĪs featured on Between the Bookends. It is a complex in-depth book on a complicated case spanning decades and impacting the lives of many.
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In his book Mary Ann Cotton: Dark Angel he has certainly done that, including comprehensive research unearthing timelines, photographs, and excerpts from trial transcripts, personal letters and newspaper articles of the time.
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Martin Connolly is a researcher and writer who felt compelled to write the full story of Mary Ann Cotton after living in the village where she is thought to have carried out many of her murders and hearing the folklore.
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GoodReads, K FisherĪn informative book about British serial killer Mary Ann Cotton, who killed for money. If you're a fan of The Knick and want to swim across the Pond for some overcast storytelling and late Victorian physik, this is definitely the true, real-life, murder most foul story you must read, posthaste. He is to be commended for a fascinating and very engrossing read. Martin Connolly has made this non-fictional account of Mary Ann’s Cotton come to life. I'd be curious to read more books on female serial killers because in a patriarchal world, they're believed to be few in number. It was also nice, well, not nice, but it was a change from the usual American tales.
Connolly traces a thorough history and writes one of the best historical true crime books I've read for a while. Chelton is a fascinating character, though I'm extremely glad I never met her. Pen and Sword always publish interesting, and in this case, disturbing books. The book also covers the lives of those left behind, including the daughter born to Mary Ann Cotton in Durham Gaol. It sets out her life, trial, death and the aftermath and also questions the legal system used to convict her by looking at contemporary evidence from the time and offering another explanation for the deaths.
With location photographs and a blow by blow account of the trial, this book challenges the claim that Mary Ann Cotton was the ‘The West Auckland Borgia’, a title given to her at the time. It is claimed she murdered over twenty people and was the first female serial killer in England. The perpetrator, Mary Ann Cotton, was tried and found guilty and later hanged on 24 March 1873 in Durham Gaol. Other bodies are exhumed and when they are found to contain arsenic, she is suspected of their murder as well. A female thief, with four husbands, a lover and, reportedly, over twelve children, is arrested and tried for the murder of her step-son in 1872, turning the small village of West Auckland in County Durham upside down.
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