num_pages: 317
description: On a stiflingly hot August morning in 1892 Lizzie Borden, of Fall River, Massachusetts, chopped her stepmother to death with an ax. An hour and a half later, she killed her father the same way. Although the story has been told by those least qualified to do so -- outsiders and men. Now, for the first time, this famous American crime is examined by someone with all the proper credentials: Victoria Lincoln, a native of Fall River and thus knows the never-revealed 'inside' story of the crime that insular community regarded as its private disgrace; she is a woman, and as she convincingly demonstrates, the Borden murders -- and their solution -- can be fully understood only by a fellow woman.Miss Lincoln comes up with startling new findings in her penetrating analysis of the crime. Among them: the hitherto unknown motive for the killings (a secret no one but an inhabitant of Fall River, Massachusetts, ever could possibly disclose); a startling new hypothesis to account for Lizzie's celebrated 'peculiar spells' that casts new light on how the crime was committed; and the place where Lizzie hid the dress she was wearing at the time of the murders -- a mystery that has been plaguing criminologists for years.
language: English
title: A Private Disgrace: Lizzie Borden by Daylight
titlecomplete: A Private Disgrace: Lizzie Borden by Daylight
genres: Biography, Death, Womens, Crime, Mystery, Nonfiction, True Crime, History, 19th Century, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 432
places: New England, Massachusetts, Fall River, Massachusetts
awards: awardedAt: -63129600000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best Fact Crime
publisher: Time Life Education