WOMEN BEHAVING BADLY True Tales of Cleveland's Most Ferocious Female Killers.

Hardback, 1st US edition. An Anthology with 16 strange-but-true-tales by one of Cleveland's leading historical crime writers. Here you'll meet ill-fated Catherine Manz, the "Bad Cinderalla" who poisoned her stepsister in revenge for years of mistreatment, then for her getaway donned her victim's most fetching outfit, a red dress with an enormous feathered hat. Velma West, the big-city girl who scandalised rural Lake County in the 1920s with her "unnatural passions" - and ended her marriage-made-in-hell with a swift hammer's blow to the skull of her dull husband, Eddie. Eva Kaber, "Lakewood's Lady Borgia," who, along with her mother and daughter, conspired to dispose of an inconvenient husband with arsenic and knife-wielding hired killers. Martha Wise, Medina's not-so-merry widow, who poisoned a dozen relatives - including her husband, mother, and brother - because she enjoyed going to funerals. Plus a whole cast of other, equally fascinating women who behaved very, very badly. Illus. 255pp. 8vo. h/back. F. in F. dw.