pickHollywood: make this book into a movie right now! Wendy Gamber's book has all the trappings of an Oscar-worthy period piece: murder, intrigue, fashion, epic court battles, a cameo from future U.S. President Benjamin Harrison, and at the heart of it all is sex (okay, maybe more like questions of gender) and money. Full review here: http://readosaurustext.blogspot.com/2016/12/wendy-gambers-notorious-mrs-clem.htm...
"They created what many nineteenth-century Americans would hitherto have termed an oxymoron: a genteel murderess" p. 186. They just don't make the genteel murderesses like they used to!
I wish the guy a couple rows ahead of me on the plane would stop talking in his outside voice so I could read in peace. Also, I think normal plane etiquette is NOT to be chatty with every single person sitting around you on a 7 am flight. #HaveNotHadMyTeaYet
"Wendy Gamber chronicles the life and times of this charming and persuasive Gilded Age confidence woman who became famous not only as an accused murderess but also as an itinerant peddler of patent medicine and the supposed originator of the Ponzi scheme." Great copy! #ReadUP
I just found out about this book for the first time as I'm reading through the Johns Hopkins University Press fall 2016 catalog. I'm adding it to my To Read list immediately.
The Notorious Mrs. Clem: Murder and Money in the Gilded Age | 
