Three of this year's best literary thrillers also tackle complicated women narrators and the murderesses who consume their thoughts.
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It's tough to make Richard Gere look like a third wheel, but somehow the murderesses of Cook County Jail pull it off.
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We later find out that these two murderesses, Bridget and Amanda, opened an assisted care facility in Roanoke during the 1980s in order to feed their killing frenzy.
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Grandmas might seem like sweet, innocent saints who make you cookies and send you nice cards for your birthday, but that's part of what makes them shockingly effective murderesses—if you're not careful, those baked goods can kill you.
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The settings for his earlier works — mostly created in tandem with his longtime partner, the lyricist Fred Ebb, who died in 2004 — have included a Nazi-infested Berlin nightclub ("Cabaret"), a cellblock for Jazz Age murderesses ("Chicago") and a dying European town held economic hostage by a rich, vengeful and macabre woman scorned ("The Visit").
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Yet Busch, himself a feminine avalanche — and a reluctant "drag legend" — doesn't really impersonate Ruth Chatterton, Miriam Hopkins, Helen Hayes and the other stars who played harlots, murderesses and mothers forced to give up their children in movies like "Madame X" (1929), "Sarah and Son" (1930), "The Sin of Madelon Claudet" (1931) and "Frisco Jenny" (1932).
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The film concludes with Roxie and Velma receiving a standing ovation from an enthusiastic audience (which includes Flynn, Morton, the jurors and other acquitted murderesses), and proclaiming that, "We couldn't have done it without you".
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The king returns from battle and hears the golden spinning wheel tell the gruesome details of Dornička's murder. The king goes off into the forest to be reunited with her. The two murderesses are thrown to the wolves.
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Dame Flora McKenzie Robson (28 March 19027 July 1984) was an English actress and star of the theatrical stage and cinema, particularly renowned for her performances in plays demanding dramatic and emotional intensity. Her range extended from queens to murderesses.
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Women are Weak (, ) is a 1959 French-Italian film featuring Alain Delon. It was one of his first roles and was crucial to launching him as a star. It was also known as Three Murderesses. The movie was a success at the French box office and achieved release in the US. Delon made some personal appearances in New York to promote the movie.
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She dedicated Empire of the Senseless to her tattooist. Acker published her first book, Politics, in 1972. Although the collection of poems and essays did not garner much critical or public attention, it did establish her reputation within the New York punk scene. In 1973, she published her first novel (under the pseudonym Black Tarantula), The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula: Some Lives of Murderesses.
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For Mary Jean DeMarr, the main thematic impulse of The Lodger is Mrs. Bunting's "willful self-deception". In an analysis of three of Lowndes' works, "focusing primarily on [...] novels about murderesses", Ellen Turner comments on how Mr. Sleuth, the murderer, is feminised by the author, being described as "a strange, queer looking figure of a man". For Turner, this shows that murder is strongly "associated with the feminine" in Lowndes' works.
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Chicago is a 2002 American musical crime film based on the 1975 stage musical of the same name. It explores the themes of celebrity, scandal, and corruption in Chicago during the Jazz Age. The film stars Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Richard Gere. Chicago centers on Roxie Hart (Zellweger) and Velma Kelly (Zeta-Jones) two murderesses who find themselves in jail together awaiting trial in 1920s Chicago.
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All of the food was cooked and photographed with the same ingredients and the same sequence of the original food that was made for Gottfried's victims. Another piece of literature that Gottfried inspired was a graphic novel titled “Gift” by Barbra Yelin. The graphic novel is about Gottfried's story and her manner of poisoning her victims. Finally, in 2009 Susanne Kord wrote a book called Murderesses in German Writing, 1720-1860: Heroines of Horror.
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Discussing these similarities, critic George Saintsbury claims that Goriot's daughters are "as surely murderesses of their father as [Lear's daughters] Goneril and Regan". As Herbert J. Hunt points out in Balzac's Comédie humaine, however, Goriot's tale is in some ways more tragic, since "he has a Regan and a Goneril, but no Cordelia".Hunt, p. 87. The narrative of Goriot's painful relations with his children has also been interpreted as a tragicomic parable of Louis XVI's decline.
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Second was, Deadly Prey tells the story of a former soldier (Ted Prior) who is kidnapped for participation in a human safari. Third was Mankillers, about an all-female combat squad to Colombia to stop a renegade agent who has hired himself out to a drug cartel and white slaver. Unfortunately, the agent's recruits consists of prison convicts - murderesses, sociopaths, bank robbers, etc. These women are guaranteed clean slates on their records if the mission is successfully pulled off.
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In September 1925 Flanner published her first "Letter from Paris" in The New Yorker, which had been launched the previous February, and with which she would be professionally linked for the next five decades. Her columns covered a wide range of topics, including artists, performances, and crime, including a lengthy feature on murderesses Christine and Léa Papin. She also published several installments about the Stavisky Affair. Flanner was also known for her obituaries—examples include those of Isadora Duncan and Edith Wharton.
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Greeks also used other descriptive phrases for them. Herodotus used the Androktones (, singular , ') ("killers/slayers of men") and Androleteirai (, singular , ') ("destroyers of men, murderesses"), in the Iliad they are also called Antianeirai (, singular , ') ("equivalent to men") and Aeschylus used the Styganor () ("those who loathe all men") in his work Prometheus Bound and in the Suppliant Maidens he called them "...τὰς ἀνάνδρους κρεοβόρους τ᾽ Ἀμαζόνας" ("the unwed, flesh-devouring Amazons"). In Hippolytus play, Phaedra calls Hippolytus, "the son of the horse-loving Amazon" (). Nonnus at Dionysiaca call the Amazons of Dionysus, Androphonus () ("men slaying").
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The play ran for a respectable 172 performances, then toured for two years (with a then- unknown Clark Gable appearing as Amos Hart in a Los Angeles production ). A silent film version in 1927 was produced and supervised by Cecil B. DeMille and starred former Mack Sennett bathing beauty Phyllis Haver as Roxie Hart. It was adapted as Roxie Hart in 1942 with Ginger Rogers in the title role. This 1942 film version eliminated all the murderesses except the unnamed Velma Kelly, and the stage and screen musical versions eliminated Jake, Babe, and several other characters.
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A female CIA agent is assigned to train and lead an all-female combat squad to Colombia to stop a renegade agent who has hired himself out to a drug cartel and white slaver. Unfortunately, the agent's recruits consists of prison convicts - murderesses, sociopaths, bank robbers, etc. These women are guaranteed clean slates on their records if the mission is successfully pulled off. Their past "experience" from their criminal endeavors offers them some insight and skill, but their vast amount of their mission-specific training will require them to learn team effort, self-sacrifice, and the ability to follow orders and achieve mission objectives.
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The Maybrick case was dramatized on the radio series The Black Museum in 1952 under the title of "Meat Juice". The 1952 Film Noir, A Blueprint for Murder, mentions Florence Maybrick, along with other notorious poison murderesses Madeleine Smith, and Lyda Trueblood The BBC Radio series John Mortimer Presents Sensational British Trials featured an episode about the Maybrick case, entitled "The Case of the Liverpool Poisoner". They mention Florence Maybrick in an episode of television show Law & Order: Criminal Intent called "Sound Bodies" from season 3, episode 8 about an arsenic poisoning at a church. The case was re-examined in the BBC programme Murder, Mystery and My Family (series 4, episode 2).
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