{"product_id":"9780762762507","title":"Devil's Rooming House: The True Story of America's Deadliest Female Serial Killer","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe gripping tale of a legendary, century-old murder spree\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e***\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA silent, simmering killer terrorized New England in1911. As a terrible heat wave killed more than 2,000 people, another silent killer began her own murderous spree. That year a reporter for the \u003ci\u003eHartford Courant\u003c\/i\u003e noticed a sharp rise in the number of obituaries for residents of a rooming house in Windsor, Connecticut, and began to suspect who was responsible: Amy Archer-Gilligan, who’d opened the Archer Home for Elderly People and Chronic Invalids four years earlier. “Sister Amy” would be accused of murdering both of her husbands and up to sixty-six of her patients with cocktails of lemonade and arsenic; her story inspired the Broadway hit \u003ci\u003eArsenic and Old Lace\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Devil’s Rooming House\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book about the life, times, and crimes of America’s most prolific female serial killer. In telling this fascinating story, M. William Phelps also paints a vivid portrait of early-twentieth-century New England.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield Publishers, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47107984687344,"sku":"9780762762507","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780762762507_p0.jpg?v=1769905223","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780762762507","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}