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The Enigma Woman: The Death Sentence of Nellie May Madison

The Enigma Woman: The Death Sentence of Nellie May Madison

Cairns, Kathleen a.

Paperback

Series: Women in the West

Biographies GeneralTrue CrimeWomen's Studies

Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 0803224508
ISBN13: 9780803224506
Publisher: Univ Of Nebraska Pr
Published: Apr 1 2009
Pages: 328
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.44 Depth: 8.54
Language: English
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. The ensuing drama unfolded with all the twists and turns of a noir crime novel. In this intriguing cultural history, Kathleen A. Cairns tells the tale of Nellie May Madison, the first woman on Death Row in California. Her story offers a glimpse into law and disorder in 1930s Los Angeles while bringing to life a remarkable character whose plight reflects on the status of women, the workings of the media and the judiciary system, and the stratification of society in her time. Cairns's re-creation of the case from murder to trial to aftermath also casts an eye forward to our own love-hate affair with celebrity crimes and our abiding ambivalence about domestic violence as a defense for murder.

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