[electronic resource] /
English language
Published Nov. 7, 2003 by RosettaBooks.
Alias Grace
4 stars
(9 reviews)
A fictionalized account of Grace Marks, a maid who murdered her employer and his mistress in Canada in 1843. A stablehand who was her accomplice and who claimed she put him up to it was hung for the crime, while she ended up in a lunatic asylum. The novel analyzes the question: was she actually less guilty, crazy, or smarter?
Subjects
- Romans
- Murder
- Trials (Murder)
- Women murderers
- Fiction
Places
- Canada