Elizabeth Kerri Mahon

Pretty Evil New York (eBook, ePUB)

True Stories of Mobster Molls, Violent Vixens, and Murderous Matriarchs

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Female criminals are often portrayed as caricatures: Black Widows, Queenpins, Mob Molls, or Femme Fatales. But the real stories are much more fascinating and complex.In Pretty Evil New York author Elizabeth Kerri Mahon takes you on a journey through a rogue's gallery of some of New York's most notable female criminals. Drawing on newspaper coverage and other primary sources, this collection of historical true crime stories chronicles eleven women who were media sensations in their day, making headlines across the country decades before radio, television, or social media. Roxalana Druse, the last woman to be hanged in New York; Ruth Snyder, immortalized in James M. Cain's novella Double Indemnity; serial killer Lizzie Halliday, nicknamed the Worst Woman in the World, who became a Hudson Valley legend; Celia Cooney, the Bobbed Hair Bandit; and Stephanie St. Clair, who rose to the top of the numbers game and then made Harlem cheer when she stood up to mobster Dutch Schultz. Alongside them are some forgotten felons, whose stories, though less well-known, are just as fascinating. Spurred by passion, profit, paranoia, or just plain perverse pleasure, these ladies span one hundred years of murder, mayhem, and madness in the Empire State.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781493055012
• Artikelnr.: 62386969

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Kerri Mahon is a native New Yorker, actress and history geek. Her book, Scandalous Women, was released in March 2011 to enthusiastic reviews. Scandalous Women was an RT Book Review Non-Fiction Pick for April 2011 and Elizabeth was also named RWA NYC's Author of the Year. She has spoken at the We Move Forward conference on Isla Mujeres, Mexico, the Historical Novel Society North America conference and participated in Chick History's yearlong project #HerStory. She has been interviewed by Marie Claire Malaysia, NPR, Extraordinary Women TV, The West Side Spirit, Vogue, Times of London, NBC online and the Pittsburgh Historical Fiction Examiner. Elizabeth has been featured in the H2 show How Sex Changed the World, as well as The Travel Channel's Monumental Mysteries, and the Investigation Discovery show Tabloid. A pop-culture diva, Elizabeth has written for The Royal Representative, Heroes and Heartbreakers, Ever After Romance, and Criminal Element.