Bathsheba Spooner: A Revolutionary Murder Conspiracy : Andrew Noone

“A Most Horrid Piece of Villainy” one observer wrote upon hearing of what is recognized as the most sensational crime of the American Revolution, the eighteenth-century counterpart to the Lizzie Borden case.

The saga reads like historical fiction, though every page is documented.

Bathsheba Spooner, favorite daughter of the once-heralded, now scorned loyalist Timothy Ruggles, plotted the murder of her Patriot husband in league with fugitive British POWs and her teenage American lover (and ex-militiaman), riveting the attention of New England for four months at the war’s mid-point.

Fascinating the reader with its melodramatic combination of war, marital discord, class conflict, duplicity, thievery, lust, murder and consequence, the tale unfolds within the larger concerns of a society undergoing the most radical disruption since its beginnings a century-and-a-half earlier.

Jonathan Cohn, Sr. National Correspondent for the Huffington Post calls the book “…meticulously researched, elegantly told.”

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