Appears unread. Pages in great condition - no writing. Pages have gold gilt edges in great condition. Cover is leather or faux leather and in good condition - some slight scuffing on gold lettering on spine as you can see in my picture. Buy with confidence - every order ships with delivery confirmation tracking number. Fast shipping from our non-smoking home. Free delivery confirmation tracking number with every order. 2013AMA185 Additional Details ------------------------------ Product description: On a stiflingly hot August morning in 1892 Lizzie Borden, of Fall River, Massachusetts, chopped her stepmother to death with an ax. An hour and a half later, she killed her father the same way. Although the story has been told by those least qualified to do so -- outsiders and men. Now, for the first time, this famous American crime is examined by someone with all the proper credentials: Victoria Lincoln, a native of Fall River and thus knows the never-revealed 'inside' story of the crime that insular community regarded as its private disgrace; she is a woman, and as she convincingly demonstrates, the Borden murders -- and their solution -- can be fully understood only by a fellow woman.

Miss Lincoln comes up with startling new findings in her penetrating analysis of the crime. Among them: the hitherto unknown motive for the killings (a secret no one but an inhabitant of Fall River, Massachusetts, ever could possibly disclose); a startling new hypothesis to account for Lizzie's celebrated 'peculiar spells' that casts new light on how the crime was committed; and the place where Lizzie hid the dress she was wearing at the time of the murders -- a mystery that has been plaguing criminologists for years.