xii, 179 pp. ABBY FITCH-MARTIN died in 1937, mourned by Whitesboro neighbors as a God-fearing woman. Actually, the sadistic old hypocrite had spent decades crippling the lives of the members of her household. Last of a Puritan clan that for 200 years and eight prosperous generations had intermarried, the race proud spinster claimed sole right to the Fitch-Martin name and fortune. - NYTimes
