Lizzie Borden, America's most celebrated murderer, comes to vivid life in this riveting and chilling book by acclaimed author Evan Hunter as the portrait of a notorious woman unfolds with shocking clarity.
Lizzie Borden took an ax
And gave her mother forty whacks.
When she saw what she had done
She gave her father forty-one.
In recreating the events of that fateful day, August 4, 1892, in Fall River, Massachusetts, and the extraordinary circumstances which led up to them, Evan Hunter spins a breathtakingly imaginative tale of an enigmatic spinster whose secret life would eventually force her to the ultimate confrontation with her stepmother and father.
Here is Lizzie Borden freed of history and legend—a full-bodied woman of hot blood and passion, fighting against her prim New England upbringing, surrendering to the late-Victorian hedonism of London, Paris and the Riviera, yet fated to live out her meager life in a placid Massachusetts town.
Seething with frustration and rage, a prisoner of her appetites, Lizzie Borden finally snapped . . . but how and why she was led into her uncompromising acts is at the heart of this enthralling, suspenseful work of the imagination.
Alternating the actual inquest and trial of Lizzie Borden with an account of her head-spinning, seductive trip to Europe, Evan Hunter portrays with a master craftsman's art the agony of a passionate woman and the depths of a murdering heart.

Lizzie: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Hunter, Evan.

United States

William Morrow Paperbacks

Dust jacket missing. Clean cloth spine has light fading. Boards have very slight wear. Small name written on first page. Text is perfect. Same day shipping.

Strangers When We Meet

Contemporary

Constable and Company Ltd.

Book has light edge wear. Text is perfect. Small writing inside front cover. Bright clean dust jacket has moderate shelf and edge wear. Same day shipping.

Come Winter

Doubleday Company, Inc.

Lizzie Borden, America's most celebrated murderer, comes to vivid life in this riveting and chilling book by acclaimed author Evan Hunter as the portrait of a notorious woman unfolds with shocking clarity.Lizzie Borden took an axAnd gave her mother forty whacks.When she saw what she had doneShe gave her father forty-one.In recreating the events of that fateful day, August 4, 1892, in Fall River, Massachusetts, and the extraordinary circumstances which led up to them, Evan Hunter spins a breathtakingly imaginative tale of an enigmatic spinster whose secret life would eventually force her to the ultimate confrontation with her stepmother and father.Here is Lizzie Borden freed of history and legend—a full-bodied woman of hot blood and passion, fighting against her prim New England upbringing, surrendering to the late-Victorian hedonism of London, Paris and the Riviera, yet fated to live out her meager life in a placid Massachusetts town.Seething with frustration and rage, a prisoner of her appetites, Lizzie Borden finally snapped . . . but how and why she was led into her uncompromising acts is at the heart of this enthralling, suspenseful work of the imagination.Alternating the actual inquest and trial of Lizzie Borden with an account of her head-spinning, seductive trip to Europe, Evan Hunter portrays with a master craftsman's art the agony of a passionate woman and the depths of a murdering heart.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Penguin Books, Ltd.

The Chisholms

Genre Fiction

Harper

Pursuing a secret relationship, lovers Sarah and Andrew are unaware that their trysts are being recorded by a New York City prosecutor who believes that Andrew is at the head of the biggest crime family networks in the country. Reprint. NYT.

Criminal Conversation

WARNER BOOKS

Streets of Gold

Ballantine Books

Written in 1954, this controversial story cracked down on the public school  system and dramatized student violence as no other novel of its time did.  Hunter used his own teaching experience to create protagonist Richard Dadier,  who lands his first real job as an English teacher at North Manual Trades High  School in New York City. Dadier knows the students here will be tough, but  nothing has prepared him for the world he enters. Hunter's popular and  groundbreaking novel attracted much attention when it was first published, and  it became a top bestseller in 1955. Set against the changing social culture of  the 1950s, The Blackboard Jungle is a fascinating time capsule that brilliantly  illuminates an issue still in the forefront of our minds.

Blackboard Jungle

Avon/Books

A fictional account of the 1892 double-murder case of Lizzie Borden, a prisoner of her appetites in conflict with her times

Lizzie

Dell Pub. Co.]

A young woman leaves home during the turbulent early '70s seeking freedom and self-expression yet, on her return, she cannot accept her father's pursuit of self-fulfillment through his divorce and remarriage

Love, Dad

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Lizzie: A Novel

Strangers When We Meet

Come Winter

Lizzie: A Novel

The Chisholms

Criminal Conversation

Streets of Gold

Blackboard Jungle

Lizzie

Love, Dad