The Adventuress

Murder, Blackmail, and Confidence Games in the Gilded Age

2010 INDIES Finalist: Finalist, True Crime (Adult Nonfiction)

Virginia A. McConnell
The Kent State University Press (March 2010)
Hardcover $29.95 (264pp)
978-1-60635-034-8

Sex, naked avarice, vast wealth, and low life in high society: tale of a nineteenth century black widow