The Serpent's Tooth - Hardcover

Andersen, Christopher P.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060157461 ISBN 13: 9780060157463

Publisher: Harpercollins, 1987

Synopsis

A story of greed, sex, illegitimacy, drugs, betrayal, and matricide, this book discloses the true story behind the bombing murders of tobacco heiress Margaret Benson and one of her sons

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

On July 9, 1985, tobacco heiress Margaret Benson, her daughter and the grandson she had adopted legally as her own were blown up by a car bomb in Naples, Fla.; only the daughter survived. Benson's father and husband were hard-driving men obsessed with success and not close to their children, whereas she was an indulgent parent who lavished presents and money on her offspring. Her son Steven had no head for business and, repeatedly bankrolled by his mother, failed again and again. When she learned that he had defrauded her, she made plans to cut him out of her will, so he assembled and placed the explosives that killed her, a crime for which he is serving two life sentences, to run consecutively, plus 37 years for attempted murder and arson. The skill of Andersen (The Book of People, The Name Game makes this familiar, highly publicized story taut and interesting. Author tour.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Harpercollins
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0060157461
• ISBN 13: 9780060157463
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 246