THE TRUE STORY THAT INSPIRED CHICAGO's ROXIE AND VELMA: Chicago the musical is the second longest running production in Broadway's history, and the movie adaptation won an Academy Award for Best Picture. But those versions are satirical and sensationalized. Few people know the true-life stories behind the real women of Murderess Row.
A FRESH STORY FOR TRUE-CRIME ENTHUSIASTS: True-crime readers are voracious, and the same readers drawn to historic true-crime stories, such as The Devil in the White City, as well as to biographies of famous 1920s gangsters, such as Al Capone and John Dillinger, will be drawn to this book.
CLASSIC CHICAGO STORIES: From the archives of the Chicago Tribune, a deep look into the city's infamous 20s crime culture-but with a twenty-first century take on how female criminals were exploited in the mass media of 90 years ago.
GIFT-READY PACKAGE WITH RARELY SEEN IMAGES: Black-and-white ephemera (photographs, page tears, and scans of archival material) and the women's stories are artfully woven together to create a gift-worthy package just in time for the holidays. Many of the photos are from glass-plate negatives that were never printed or have not been reproduced since the 1920s.
