- Taschenbuch: 336 Seiten
- Verlag: Pocket Star; Auflage: 1st Pocket Books (1. Juli 2003)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0671014501
- ISBN-13: 978-0671014506
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 17,3 x 10,7 x 2,3 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (2 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.203.097 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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"[Schechter is] America's principle chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers."
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They call nurses 'angels of mercy' - and to all appearances, Jane Toppan fit that description. Besides her obvious competence, she seemed to be a sensitive, sympathetic woman who had worked for some of Boston's best families. Of course, none of her employers know anything about Jane's early years. They didn't know about her mother's tragic death when Jane was just an infant - or her father's subsequent insanity, which impelled him to stitch his eyelids together one day in his Boston tailor shop. They weren't aware of Jane's own suicide attempts after being jilted by her fiance, or the morbid obsessions she displayed during her student nursing years at a Cambridge hospital, where her bizarre fascination with autopsies became a source of dismay to her supervisors. It wasn't until members of the Davis family began dropping like flies in the summer of 1901 that the terrible truth about the skilled, seemingly compassionate nurse finally came to light. Far from being an 'angel of mercy,' Jane Toppan turned out to be one of America's most bloodthirsty 'angels of death.'
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A very interesting book about a nurse who had the urge to kill her patients with morphine and atropine. The book also allows the reader to look into the weird world of medicine in the 1850's when doctors used strychine as a cure for stomach-ache or arsenic as a beauty-supply which was sold over the counter. And it is also interesting to read that the nurse wasen't the only woman in that century thar poisened countless people. Two other women can name themselves the American Borgias. The most disturbing fact of this otherwise very interesting book is that the serial-killing-nurse wouldn't have been caught and locked up in prison if she wouldn't have had the urge to poison a whole family at the same time
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This historical true crime book focuses on a late 19th century serial killer, Jane Toppan. As a nurse, this "angel of mercy" managed to send quite a number of people to meet their maker before their time. Jane Toppan went about her business for years before her indulgences were curtailed by the law.
The author reviews the killer's life of crime and her subsequent trial in the context and social mores of the time, He analyses her actions and the way that she was viewed by the public. Jane Toppan was, indeed, a seriously disturbed woman, a true sociopath devoid of a conscience. Yet, those who had survived her ministrations were loathe to believe that this woman could commit such heinous and nefarious acts.
The book is well-researched and those who like reading historical true crime will derive enjoyment from this well-written overview and analysis of the life and times of Jane Toppan. The late nineteenth century is vividly brought to life, as the author provides a peek into the social history of the time, which enables the reader to see the progress that society has made on so many different levels since then. Unfortunately, however, serial killers still walk amongst us.
The author reviews the killer's life of crime and her subsequent trial in the context and social mores of the time, He analyses her actions and the way that she was viewed by the public. Jane Toppan was, indeed, a seriously disturbed woman, a true sociopath devoid of a conscience. Yet, those who had survived her ministrations were loathe to believe that this woman could commit such heinous and nefarious acts.
The book is well-researched and those who like reading historical true crime will derive enjoyment from this well-written overview and analysis of the life and times of Jane Toppan. The late nineteenth century is vividly brought to life, as the author provides a peek into the social history of the time, which enables the reader to see the progress that society has made on so many different levels since then. Unfortunately, however, serial killers still walk amongst us.
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Excellent Social History & Psychological Crime Study
5. September 2005
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English professor Harold Schechter has replaced Ann Rule in my heart as the Lord of True Crime Writing, but don't go to him expecting a lurid account of the crime du jour. He's going to give you an account of the crimes of yesterday. Fatal focuses on the criminal career of Jane Toppan, who began killing circa 1890. Schechter, also the writer of an extremely engaging series of murder mysteries starring Edgar Allen Poe, provides extensive detail in his thoroughly researched works. I don't read Ann Rule anymore; the true crime genre rather lost my interest years ago. But I like Schechter's histories almost as much as I like his fictions. I don't know that I'd personally consider Fatal his finest book, but it was still very well done and of interest on many levels--not only for the criminal psychology of its subject, but also for the culture that bred her, sheltered her and finally condemned her. Check it out. And then, if you haven't already, give Deranged and Depraved a try...and move on to Nevermore, first in his Poe mysteries.
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Schechter is King!
5. Januar 2004
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Harold Shaechter is my favorite true crime writer because he chooses such interesting subject matter (Jane Toppan, Ed Gein, Albert Fish, Jesse Pomeroy) and really emerses his readers in the time and place of the murders. As a Bostonian, I especially appreciates it when he takes on some of out home grown deviants (Toppan and Pomeroy.) He captures the truth of the case, the whole truth, before they were infamous, during their ajudication and, most importantly, after, their lives in prison.
If you are fan of Caleb Carr or Mathew Pearl, I highly recommend this book and Shechter's others.
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Take Your Medicine, It's Good for You.
17. September 2003
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Schechter is one of my favorite writers of historical true crime. He gives enough detail to place the murders in historical prospective, but doesn't go overboard. In this case he opens the book with a synopsis of a crime of the late 20th century then goes on to discuss a crime that occured in the late 1870's, twenty years before the events that form the core of the book. Both of these crimes help to illuminate the story of Jolly Jane Toppan, a popular nurse, whose surviving patients could not believe the accusations leveled against her.
The author also has a theory about the difference between female and male serial killers. I'm not sure I totally buy it but it is something to think about.
Anyway, this book is riveting. The background of the characters is well developed and researched. It also will you give you pause the next time a nurse hands you a paper cup with a bunch of little anonymous pills in it. "Take your medicine, it's good for you."
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