The library will be CLOSED Friday, July 4, 2025, in observance of Independence Day.
The gripping tale of a legendary, century-old murder spree perpetrated by America’s most prolific female serial killer.
We will meet on the third Monday of every month, except July & December. This will be a great way to discover new and classic True Crime writing.
October's title will be The Devil's Rooming House: The True Story of America's Deadliest Female Serial Killer by M. William Phelps.
From Amazon
A silent, simmering killer terrorized New England in 1911. As a terrible heat wave killed more than 2,000 people, another silent killer began her own murderous spree. That year a reporter for the Hartford Courant noticed a sharp rise in the number of obituaries for residents of a rooming house in Windsor, Connecticut, and began to suspect who was responsible: Amy Archer-Gilligan, who’d opened the Archer Home for Elderly People and Chronic Invalids four years earlier. “Sister Amy” would be accused of murdering both of her husbands and up to sixty-six of her patients with cocktails of lemonade and arsenic; her story inspired the Broadway hit Arsenic and Old Lace.
The Devil’s Rooming House is the first book about the life, times, and crimes of America’s most prolific female serial killer. In telling this fascinating story, M. William Phelps also paints a vivid portrait of early-twentieth-century New England.
View and print the list of books and check out WPPL's Book Discussion page for more book and movie clubs!
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Books and Authors |
TAGS: | True Crime | book discussion | book club |
Westlake Porter Public Library is an independent public library serving the residents of the city of Westlake, western Cuyahoga County and eastern Lorain County. The library is located at 27333 Center Ridge Road in Westlake, Ohio. Anyone who lives, works, owns property, or goes to school in Ohio can register for a free library card.
