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

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library copy with external stickers and protective plastic covering. Partial date due slip on inside page, now covered with blank ex libris bookplate sticker. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Pages are sunned. Body text and binding are still very good.

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, defiant woman 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 morality, politics, and the notion of law in an Australia on the edge of nationhood. (back cover)