Did This Hand Kill?
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Gorgonowa, a governess having an affair with her employer, was accused of brutally murdering his daughter, the 17-year-old Lusia on New Year's Eve in 1931. Despite her claims of innocence, Gorgonowa was declaredPoland's ultimate villain, and eventually convicted.
But questions remain about this case?the most notorious murder trial of the Second Polish Republic?along with questions about what exactly happened to Gorgonowa post-World War II. Lazarewicz revisits the crime with a contemporary lens and recreates the furor and celebrity revolving around this murder.
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Sean Gasper Bye is a translator of Polish fiction, reportage, and drama. He has published translations of Watercolours by Lidia Ostalowska, History of a Disappearance by Filip Springer, The King of Warsaw by Szczepan Twardoch, and Ellis Island: A People's History by Malgorzata Szejnert. He's also published shorter pieces in The Guardian, Words Without Borders, Catapult, World Literature Today, and elsewhere. He is a winner of the 2016 Asymptote Close Approximations Prize, a 2019 National Endowment for the Arts translation fellow, and former Literature and Humanities Curator at the Polish Cultural Institute New York.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Translator's Note
- Dedication
- Prologue
- Part I
- Lusia Murdered
- The Suspects
- The Origin of a Villainess
- The Frankiewicz Report
- Lusia's Last Day
- The Great Spectacle at Lyczaków Cemetery
- Guiltless
- It Can't be her
- From Dalmatia to Poland
- The Indictment
- Rita's New Life
- In the Palace of Justice
- Witness Number One
- The Killer was Someone in the House
- Examining the Servants
- She's not Telling the Truth
- The Turning Point
- A Muddle
- Posthaste!
- Rita's Defensive Front
- The Appeal
- We're Going to have a Baby
- On the Road with Kropelka
- A Re-Run of Justice
- Through Krzywicka's Eyes
- The Researcher Versus the Practitioner
- Three Masterpieces
- A Cryl of Despair
- Part II
- Branded
- Following Leads: In Search of an Alternate Version of Events
- Nasty Gorgon
- Following Leads: In Lviv
- I, Rita's Daughter
- Following Leads: Could it have been Stas?
- Erasing the Traces?
- Following Leads: In the Archives
- Following Leads: The Newspapers
- Following Leads: The Light at the End of the Tunnel
- Following Leads: The Movie
- Józef K. Caught in a Trap
- Following Leads: Looking for a Hook
- The Last Witness
- Following Leads: Zurek
- Where is Gorgonowa?
- Following Leads: The DNA
- Following Leads: From Olbrycht's Archive
- The Secrets of Aldona K.
- The Final Lead
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography
- Table of Photographs
- About the Authors
- Back Cover
