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The Angel Makers: Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History's Most Astonishing Murder Ring

by Patti McCracken

A 1920s Hungarian murder ring examined through its central midwife

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A 1920s Hungarian murder ring examined through its central midwife

Set in the farming community of Nagyrév, Hungary, this true-crime account centers on a village midwife known as Auntie Suzy and the network of women connected to arsenic poisonings. Patti McCracken’s subject is not a single crime but an alleged murder ring whose victims included at least 160 men, placing domestic life, local authority, and access to poison at the heart of the case. The book frames the events within the social world of a rural community, following the unsettling scale of violence attributed to wives, mothers, and daughters.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • True-crime readers interested in historical mass-murder cases
  • Readers interested in women-centered criminal networks and rural social history
  • Those seeking a nonfiction account set in 1920s Hungary

Themes

Arsenic poisoningMurder ringsMidwifery and local authorityRural Hungarian lifeWomen and violence

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Book overview

The Angel Makers is a true-crime story like no other--a 1920s midwife who may have been the century's most prolific killer leading a murder ring of women responsible for the deaths of at least 160 men.

The horror occurred in a rustic farming enclave in modern-day Hungary. To look at the unlikely lineup of murderesses--village wives, mothers, and daughters--was to come to the shocking realization that this could have happened anywhere, and to anyone. At the center of it all was a sharp-minded village midwife, a "smiling Buddha" known as Auntie Suzy, who distilled arsenic from flypaper and distributed it to the women of Nagyr

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