500 Great Books By Women discussion

I need to get my copy of The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York back from my friend.

Would a true crime written up as fiction here work?

Paul wrote: "Would a true crime written up as fiction here work?"

Seeing as how so many people consider 'The Black Dahlia' true crime despite the work being fiction, I'm going to go ahead and say yes.

Thank you; for 12 I will look at either https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
or https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8...
Both are accounts of the same series of events

That is A Pin to See the Peepshow by F. Tennyson Jesse and Fred and Edie by Jill Dawson

This looks like a possible good choice for number 12:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

Patty wrote: "This looks like a possible good choice for number 12:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3..."

Thanks, Patty. I also remembered The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm, which I also own.

I belong to a Mystery and True Crime book club for women and our March selection is After the Eclipse: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search by Sarah Perry. It's a memoir written by the victim's daughter, which may appeal to readers who don't otherwise read the true crime genre.

Paul wrote: "That is A Pin to See the Peepshow by F. Tennyson Jesse and Fred and Edie by Jill Dawson"

These look fascinating. I'm not familiar with the Ilford murders.
In case anyone else is curious (I was), F. Tennyson Jesse is Alfred, Lord Tennyson's niece.