Everything She Ever Wanted by Ann Rule

Everything She Ever Wanted (Ann Rule True Crime Paperback, 2002 Reprint)

Ann Rule's Gripping True Story of Obsessive Love, Poisoning, Arson and Murder in a Georgia Family

Bibliographic Specifications

• Title: Everything She Ever Wanted: A True Story of Obsessive Love, Murder and Betrayal
• Author: Ann Rule
• Publisher: Time Warner Paperbacks, London
• Publication Date: 2002
• ISBN-13: 9780751504255
• ISBN-10: 0751504254
• Edition Details: Time Warner Paperbacks reprint, 2002. First published in the USA in 1992 by Simon and Schuster, Inc.; first published in Great Britain in 1993 by Warner Books. Reprinted 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998 and 2001.
• Binding: Original publisher's illustrated card wrappers, perfect bound, with a small inset photograph of a house to the front cover and spine.
• Physical Format: Mass market paperback, 644 pages. With a section of black and white photographic plates.
• Language: English

Official Condition Report

• The Book: Very Good (VG)
• Exterior / Wraps: Cream and black illustrated card wrappers. The front cover is clean and bright. The spine shows several light vertical stress lines along its length and a small mark near the head. The back cover is clean with slight overall dulling.
• Interior: The text block is solid and tight, with no loose pages. The pages are evenly toned, and the fore-edge, head and tail show even toning with no visible stains. The black and white photographic plates and the text are clean.
• The Dust Jacket: Not Applicable (As Issued)

Synopsis & Historical Value

Everything She Ever Wanted is Ann Rule's account of a Southern couple, Pat Taylor and Tom Allanson, whose fairytale marriage and dream of a plantation life swiftly collapsed into family hatred, arson, murder and attempted murder. As obsessive jealousies and loyalties came to light, the story spread across the family of Tom Allanson.

Rule follows the case of Pat Taylor Allanson, a Georgia woman whose poisonings, arson and killings unfolded around her husband's relatives. His parents were killed and his grandparents were poisoned with arsenic. The book was Ann Rule's eighth true-crime book, first published in the USA in 1992 and in Great Britain in 1993.

The story reached a wider audience through a 2009 Lifetime television miniseries starring Gina Gershon. This is a solid, collectible copy of a landmark title from one of the best-known American true-crime writers.

Author Profile: Ann Rule

Ann Rule was born in Lowell, Michigan, in 1931 and took a bachelor's degree in creative writing at the University of Washington. A former Seattle police officer, she began writing for detective magazines in 1969 and went on to write more than thirty books.

Her first bestseller was The Stranger Beside Me, about Ted Bundy, and her other titles include Green River, Running Red and Practice to Deceive. She died in 2015.