Devil's Rooming House

<DIV><DIV><DIV><B>The gripping tale of a legendary century-old murder spree</B></DIV><P>***</P><P>A silent simmering killer terrorized New England in1911. As a terrible heat wave killed more than 2000 people another silent killer began her own murderous spree. That year a reporter for the <I>Hartford Courant</I> noticed a sharp rise in the number of obituaries for residents of a rooming house in Windsor Connecticut and began to suspect who was responsible: Amy Archer-Gilligan who'd opened the Archer Home for Elderly People and Chronic Invalids four years earlier. Sister Amy would be accused of murdering both of her husbands and up to sixty-six of her patients with cocktails of lemonade and arsenic; her story inspired the Broadway hit <I>Arsenic and Old Lace</I>. </P><P><I>The Devil’s Rooming House</I> is the first book about the life times and crimes of America’s most prolific female serial killer. In telling this fascinating story M. William Phelps also paints a vivid portrait of early-twentieth-century New England.</DIV></DIV></P>