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• Author/Creator:Purcell, Laura, author.
  
• Title:The poison thread / Laura Purcell.
  
• ISBN:9780143134053
  0143134051
  
• Publication:New York : Penguin Books, 2019.
  
• Copyright notice date: ©2018
  
• Physical Description:350 pages ; 20 cm
  

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  • Call Number: PR6116.U73 P65 2019 (LC)
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    

   
• Notes:First published in Great Britain as The Corset by Raven Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018
  
• Summary:Dorothea Truelove is young, wealthy, and beautiful. Ruth Butterham is young, poor, and awaiting trial for murder. When Dorothea's charitable work brings her to Oakgate Prison, she is delighted by the chance to explore her fascination with phrenology and test her hypothesis that the shape of a person's skull can cast a light on their darkest crimes. But when she meets one of the prisoners, the teenaged seamstress Ruth, she is faced with another strange idea: that it is possible to kill with a needle and thread--because Ruth attributes her crimes to a supernatural power inherent in her stitches. The story Ruth has to tell of her deadly creations--of bitterness and betrayal, of death and dresses--will shake Dorothea's belief in rationality, and the power of redemption. Can Ruth be trusted? Is she mad, or a murderer? For fans of Shirley Jackson, The Poison Thread is a spine-tingling, sinister read about the evil that lurks behind the facade of innocence.
  
• Other formats:Online version: Purcell, Laura, author. Poison thread New York : Penguin Books, [2018]
  
• Format:Book
• Subjects:Women prisoners--Fiction.
  Women murderers--Fiction.
  Women dressmakers--Fiction.
  Social classes--England--Fiction.
  Prison visits--Fiction.
  Phrenology--Fiction.
  Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901--Fiction.