Evil women : deadlier than the male John Marlowe

"Among the thirty-four cases covered are: Pamela Smart, a volunteer at a high school drug awareness program, who urged her fifteen-year-old lover and his friends to kill her husband; Nancy Kissel, an expat American in Hong Kong, who served her investment banker husband a strawberry milkshake laced with drugs, then clubbed him to death with a statue; and Celeste Beard, whose husband was disemboweled by her lesbian lover"--Amazon.com.
Nancy Kissel served her investment banker husband a strawberry milkshake laced with drugs, then clubbed him to death with a statuette. Kimberly Hricko poisoned her husband and set fire to his corpse during Valentine's Day break intended to rekindle their relationship. Jane Andrews, the former aide to the Duchess of York, used a kitchen knife and cricket bat to bring her fiance's life to a grisly end. Rita Gluzman stabbed her estranged husband and then forced a young cousin to dismember the corpse. -- back cover.