A Civil War veteran who perpetrated one of the most ghastly mass
slaughters in the annals of U.S. crime. A nineteenth-century female
serial killer whose victims included three husbands and six of her own
children. A Gilded Age "Bluebeard" who did away with as many as fifty
wives throughout the country. A decorated World War I hero who
orchestrated a murder that stunned Jazz Age America. While other
infamous homicides from the same eras--the Lizzie Borden slayings, for
example, or the "thrill killing" committed by Leopold and Loeb--have
entered into our cultural mythology, these four equally sensational
crimes have largely faded from public memory. A quartet of gripping
historical true-crime narratives, Butcher's Work restores these
once-notorious cases to vivid, dramatic life.