Community Book Club

February 2023 Genre: True Crime

Title: The Devil's Rooming House: The True Story of America's Deadliest Female Serial Killer by M. William Phelps

Summary: A silent, simmering killer terrorized New England in 1911. A heat wave unlike any that had come before killed people in the streets, caused others to drown in the waters where they sought relief, and drove still others to suicide. As more than 2,000 people died during the natural disaster, another silent killer began her own murderous spree. Amy Archer-Gilligan operated the Archer Home for Elderly People and Chronic Invalids in Windsor, Connecticut. What was thought to be a respectable business run by a pioneering woman was exposed as little more than a murder factory. Amy would be accused of murdering both her husbands and dozens of her elderly patients with cocktails of lemonade and arsenic—all for money.

**This meeting of our Community Book Club (CBC) will be held in-person in our Lowell Room.**

 

February's CBC will pair with our February 22nd virtual event, Can I Get You a Drink? Female Poisoners with Erin Moulton

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Event Details

Contact Name: 
Adult Services
Contact Phone Number: 
603-424-5021 x104
Contact Email Address: 
merrimackpl@merrimacklibrary.org
Contact Organization: 
Merrimack Public Library
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