Especially at a time and place when \u201cthe fairer sex\u201d were supposed to be quietly satisfied with their lot in life, six crime-linked women refused to abide by the expectations of both the law-abiding and law-breaking worlds.<\/p>\n
Kathryn Kelly was a farm girl whose criminal husbands were her means to the good life; she gave the last one, \u201cMachine Gun\u201d Kelly, his nickname and weapon. Bonnie Parker was a baby-faced honor-roll student who fell hopelessly in love with Clyde Barrow and their star-crossed love affair propelled the pair into legend. Black, female, and foreign, Stephanie St. Clair had three strikes against her when she arrived in New York, but she rose to become queen of Harlem\u2019s underworld.<\/p>\n
Virginia Hill fought her father\u2019s abuse as a child and that fearlessness helped her handle other brutal men as she worked her way through three Mafia organizations, turning sexual power into just plain power. Showgirl Geri Rosenthal married Las Vegas\u2019 most powerful mobster and had an affair with its most vicious hitman, helping to bring down the Mafia\u2019s empire in Sin City. High-spirited bombshell\u00a0Liz Renay\u00a0became an actress, artist, and author, but her time as mob courtesan threw a shadow into the spotlight she craved.<\/p>\n
Like most men, criminals have rules about how women are expected to behave. But some, like the six portrayed at length in\u00a0Shameless<\/i>, used their innate abilities to make an indelible mark on a world where they were supposed to leave no trace.<\/p>\n
About The Author(s)<\/p>\n
| Lissa Townsend Rodgers was born in Poughkeepsie and spent her formative years in New York City before eventually moving to Las Vegas. She has worked as a journalist and editor for a vast array of publications, as well as a teacher and a librarian. This is her first book.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Shameless<\/em> paints a vivid mosaic of the women behind some of history\u2019s most notorious gangsters: Kathryn Kelly, wife of the infamous \u201cMachine Gun\u201d Kelly; Bonnie Parker, whose photos and poems propelled herself and Clyde Barrow into legend; Stephanie St. Clair, queen of the Harlem numbers racket; Virginia Hill, who wrapped killers, including Bugsy Siegel, around her little finger; Geri Rosenthal, who married Las Vegas\u2019 most powerful mobster and had an affair with its most vicious hitman; and Liz Renay, the standup bombshell and mob courtesan.<\/div>\n <\/p>\n *Autographed Copy<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":845821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"product_cat":[39,41,378],"product_tag":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/846128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/845821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=846128"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=846128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |