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See What I Have Done

by Sarah Schmidt

Published by Hachette

ISBN 9780733636882

$32.99

Our fascination with violent crime seems to find its zenith with the particular brutality of axe murders, all the more so when the perpetrator may be a young woman. The unsolved Borden murders of the 1890s in Fall River, Massachusetts and the associated trial and acquittal of Lizzie Borden for the savage deaths of her father and stepmother has consistently enthralled writers and filmmakers. It was even memorialised in a macabre children’s rhyme:

Lizzie Borden took an axe And gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, She gave her father forty-one.

Extending the

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