Murdering Stepmothers: The Execution of Martha Rendell by Anna Haebich

Book Description.

Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library copy with stickers, stamps and protective plastic covering. Date due slip on inside page. Some edgewear and sunning of pages. Book is clean and binding is very good.

Murdering Stepmothers is based on the true story of Martha Rendell, the last woman to be hanged in Western Australia.

Sensational rumours of the murder of three small children by their stepmother ignite the passions of Perth citizens in 1909. Shocked by horrific descriptions of how she poisoned the children, they demand her execution as one voice. But did she do it? Or was she a victim of the prejudices of her persecutors?

Won - 2011 Margaret Medcalf Award