Linda Wolfe
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My WorksTHE MURDER OF DR. CHAPMAN
The Legendary Trials of Lucretia Chapman and Her Lover "An affecting portrait of a desperately romantic woman and an audacious, inept con man." --New York Times Book Review "An absorbing account of a scandal that galvanized public attention....In telling the story of Lino and Lucretia, Wolfe unveils the hidden worlds of deception and lust in antebellum America, worlds that writers such as Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne would make a staple of their fiction." --Chicago Tribune "This is a book a reader hates to finish because there is so much to savor on every page." --Philadelphia Inquirer "Linda Wolfe captures the tenor and texture of the times, the prevailing moods and opinions, and delivers them to the reader without breaking stride." --Kirkus Reviews "Wolfe has always been a keen observer of contemporary true crime; here she has delved deeper into history to disinter a quintessential con man who cut a wide swath along the eastern seaboard." --Publishers Weekly "From the dust of the archives Linda Wolfe has recovered a terrific, gripping story of a wily con man, a woman's fall from grace, and a ghastly crime. Wolfe recreates the 19th-century world in vivid detail and with moving, skillful prose, brings these tragic characters to life." --Henry Wiencek, author of An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America "The Murder of Dr. Chapman reads like the best sort of literary thriller....Connoisseurs of sensational trials, from O.J. Simpson to Claus Von Bulow, will surely not want to miss this one, which was made for Court TV, had it existed in the nineteenth century!" --Katharine Weber, author of The Little Women LOVE ME TO DEATH A Journalist's Memoir of the Hunt for Her Friend's Killer "Linda Wolfe has somehow put us as closely in touch with the manner and sensibility of a serial killer as we are ever likely to be." --Bruce Jay Friedman, The New York Times "[A] shocking Jekyll-and-Hyde tale." --Maureen Dowd, The New York Times Book Review "Linda Wolfe has written yet another spellbinding tale...Double Life is such an intimate portrait that I felt like a voyeur -- but could not stop until I finished the last page." --Ann Rule
WASTED The Preppie Murder WASTED was a "New York Times Notable Book" and was nominated for an Edgar. Reviewers wrote: "An excellent, valuable book" --Michael Thomas, New York Times Book Review "Fascinating, horrifying...and heartbreaking." --Ann Rule, Newsday "A thoughtful and unsensational book about a thoughtless and horrifying murder." --Mademoiselle "[A work of] breadth, subtlety...fierce intelligence." --John Leonard, New York Magazine "Chilling and taut." --Cosmopolitan THE LITERARY GOURMET Menus From Masterpieces A culinary classic, the award-winning The Literary Gourmet is a collection of dining scenes from the masterpieces of world literature, accompanied by historically-accurate recipes that were tested in the kitchens of New York's Four Seasons restaurant. "A succulent anthology of food literature, complete with recipes for Gogol's stuffed sturgeon and Maupassant's crayfish bisque." --Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris |
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