Mad Madame Lalaurie
Subtitle: New Orleans' most famous murderess revealed
By: Victoria Cosner Love & Lorelei Shannon
Contributors: Shannon, Lorelei
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9781609491994
Subjects: Women murderers; Biography
Description: A biography of Delphine Lalaurie, a famous murderer from New Orleans.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The legend; title: Delphine's early life and first marriage; title: Delphine's second marriage; title: Louis Lalaurie and the "catastrophe of 1834"; title: Exiled in Paris; title: Delphine Lalaurie's last years; title: Madame Lalaurie in popular history and culture; title: What if it's all true?; title: Our conclusions; title: Myths v. facts; title: And what about the haunted house?