William Phelps, tells the shocking, true story of this Victorian murderess in fascinating detail…. Amy dispatched two husbands and possibly as many as 66 others in a fashion reminiscent of ‘Arsenic and Old Lace,' a Broadway play that was loosely based on her case….
But a lesser known contemporary, Amy Archer-Gilligan, is much more interesting.
“Lizzie Bordon became famous for probably murdering her stepmother and father in turn-of-the-century New England.
A genteel true-crime excursion.” - Mike Tribby, Booklist Amy's sensational trial attracted great interest, and Phelps wraps the whole dirty business in a delightfully cozy narrative. “Amy Archer-Gilligan-Sister Amy, she was called-was a murderess well-enough known to be cited as an inspiration for the Joseph Kesselring's perennial grim farce, Arsenic and Old Lace…. William Phelps also paints a vivid portrait of early-twentieth-century New England. The Devil’s Rooming House is the first book about the life, times, and crimes of America’s most prolific female serial killer. “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 Arsenic and Old Lace. That year a reporter for the Hartford Courant 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. As a terrible heat wave killed more than 2,000 people, another silent killer began her own murderous spree.
The gripping tale of a legendary, century-old murder spreeĪ silent, simmering killer terrorized New England in1911.
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