Murdering Stepmothers The Execution Of Martha Rendell
Publisher: University of Western Australia Press
Published: 2010
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9781921401459
Description: Sensational rumours of the murder of three small children by their stepmother ignite the passions of Perth citizens in 1909. Shocked by horrific descriptions of how she poisoned the children, they demand her execution as one voice. But did she do it? Or was she a victim of the prejudices of her persecutors? Based on a true story and meticulously researched, this compelling novel is driven by passion, imagination and an eerie conjuring up of the past.