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The Enigma Woman The Death Sentence of Nellie May Madison / Kathleen A. Cairns.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cairns, Kathleen A., 1946-
- Series:
- Women in the West.
- Women in the west
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex role--United States--History.
- Sex role.
- Abused women--California--Biography.
- Abused women.
- Women murderers--California--Biography.
- Women murderers.
- Madison, Nellie May, 1895-1953.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (327 p.)
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Crack shot." "Enigma woman." "Good with ponies and pistols." "A much-married woman.". What if such an unconventional woman-and the press unanimously agreed that Nellie May Madison was indeed unconventional-were to get away with murder? Shortly after her husband's bullet-riddled body was found in the couple's Burbank apartment, police issued an all-points bulletin for the "beautiful, dark-haired widow.
- Contents:
- A girl from Montana
- Midnight alibi
- Outlaw woman
- Enigma woman
- The ultimate penalty
- The people v. Nellie Madison
- The defense
- Lady Macbeth
- The verdict
- A condemned woman
- An abused woman
- The reprieve
- Life in prison
- A traditional woman.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-288) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-82379-8
- 9786610823796
- 0-8032-0692-5
- OCLC:
- 476036004
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