From the author who brought you the shocking true story that inspired "Arsenic and Old Lace" comes the horrific legacy of death and destruction in the gunmaking Colt family during the 19th Century, a legacy largely remembered for a lurid murder case that inspired Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Oblong Box" but one that encompassed so much more.
M. William Phelps reveals an unfathomable pattern surrounding repeating arms inventor Samuel Colt--from the death of all the Colt children, including Sam's sea captain son's mysterious demise aboard his yacht, to the eccentric and pious life of Sam Colt's widow.
Shocking revelations followed: Did John shoot Adams with one of his brother's Colt firearms before hacking him up and packing him in an oblong box? Did Sam Colt invent the revolving pistol, or steal the idea? Part historical true-crime, part family biography and cultural history, "The Devil's Right Hand "is a stirring narrative about a darkly cursed American dynasty.""
