The Borden murders : Lizzie Borden & the trial of the century / Sarah Miller.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Schwartz & Wade Books, [2016]Description: 288 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780553498080 (hc)
- 0553498088 (hc)
- 9780553498097 (glb)
- 0553498096 (glb)
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Main Library | NonFiction | 345.744 M651 | Checked out | 06/10/2024 | 33111008365260 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Lizzie Borden took an axe, gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one.
Here's middle-grade nonfiction that reads like a thriller. With murder, court battles, and sensational newspaper headlines, the story of Lizzie Borden is compulsively readable.
In a compelling, linear narrative, Miller takes readers along as she investigates a brutal crime- the August 4, 1892, murders of wealthy and prominent Andrew and Abby Borden. The accused? Mild-mannered and highly respected Lizzie Borden, daughter of Andrew and stepdaughter of Abby. Most of what is known about Lizzie's arrest and subsequent trial (and acquittal) comes from sensationalized newspaper reports; as Miller sorts fact from fiction, and as a legal battle gets under way, a gripping portrait of a woman and a town emerges.
With inserts featuring period photos and newspaper clippings-and, yes, images from the murder scene-readers will devour this nonfiction book that reads like fiction.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-281) and index.
Who's who -- Lizzie Borden took an axe -- Murder! -- The Bordens -- Investigation -- Inquest -- Arrest -- Preliminary hearing -- The waiting time -- Trial of the century -- Aftermath -- Epilogue -- Researching the Bordens -- Sources -- Acknowledgements.
Examines the Borden murders, using newspaper articles to recreate the events and the trial and acquittal of Lizzie Borden and exploring Lizzie's story to theorize on what may have happened.