Jazz Age Murder in Northwest

Nettie Herskovitz was wealthy and widowed. Her suitor, Harry Diamond, was a dashing young bootlegger a decade and a half her junior. At first she resisted his advances, but soon the two were married with an infant daughter. Disinterested in a domestic life, Diamond shot Nettie on Valentine's Day 1923 while riding in their Hudson sedan. He tried to pin the crime on the fleeing chauffeur, but Diamond made a mistake. Though mortally wounded, Nettie lived long enough to identify her attacker to police and change her will. The sensational Diamond murder became tabloid fodder--a Roaring Twenties story of roadhouse floozies, illegal booze, orphaned children, trust funds and legal acrobatics.

• Pages: 160
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
• Imprint: The History Press
• Series: True Crime
• Publication Date: 1st June 2015
• State: Indiana
• Illustrations Note: 100% Mono
• ISBN: 9781626194786
• Format: Paperback