Lizzie Borden - The Untold Story

Victor Gollancz Ltd 1961
`Lizzie Borden took an axe, and gave her mother 40 whacks: When she saw what she had done, she gave her father 41.' But did she? Massachusetts 1892: Lizzie Border, a Sunday-school teacher and ardent church worker, was arrested and tried on a charge of murdering, with particularly horrid brutality, her father and step-father. Evidence was not conclusive, and she was acquitted; but everyone believed she was guilty, and almost everyone still believes it. Now Edward Radin, after two years of investigation and research, has uncovered evidence that will turn the popular opinion of Lizzie upside-down...