Female criminals are often portrayed as caricatures: Black Widows, Queenpins, Mob Molls, or Femme Fatales.
She lives in New York, New York..
Her first book, SCANDALOUS WOMEN, was released in March 2011 to enthusiastic reviews.
The readership for the blog continues to grow with close to six million-page views to date.
She launched the Scandalous Women blog (scandalouswoman.blogspot.com) in the fall of 2007 to an audience eager to discover some of history\'s most fascinating and flagrant women.
About author(s): Elizabeth Kerri Mahon is a native New Yorker and history geek.
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.
Alongside them are some forgotten felons, whose stories, though less well-known, are just as fascinating.
Clair, who rose to the top of the numbers game and then made Harlem cheer when she stood up to Mobster Dutch Schultz.
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.
Roxalana Druse, the last woman to be hanged in New York
Ruth Snyder, immortalized in James M.
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.
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.
But the real Stories are much more fascinating and complex.
Female criminals are often portrayed as caricatures: Black Widows, Queenpins, Mob Molls, or Femme Fatales
