The Angel Makers

By Patti McCracken,

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

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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…

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Michele C. Hollow Author Of The Angel Makers: Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History's Most Astonishing Murder Ring
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It's nonfiction that reads like fiction. I didn't know about Auntie Suzy and the murder ring, which I believe saved many women's lives.

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