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Gold digging, adultery, and a slaying on Valentine's Day, 1923, in this juicy . . . page-turner of a true crime story (Chicago Tribune). It was a Roaring Twenties fatal attraction. Nettie Herskovitz was wealthy and widowed when she met Harry Diamond. The attentive, irresistibly sexy twenty-three-year-old suitor would become Nettie's fifth husband. He was also a bootlegger, pimp, and first-class hustler who thought he'd wed a goldmine. What Harry found instead was a fiercely independent older woman who was nobody's fool for long. Then, on February 14, 1923, Harry tried to secure his inheritance by shooting Nettie four times, once at point blank range to the head. He blamed the crime on their teenage African American chauffeur. Harry might have gotten away with it, if not for one little oversight. Nettie wasn't dead. With its combination of sin, sex, high-society scandal, and even the interference of the Ku Klux Klan, the case against the movie-star handsome Harry Diamond moved beyond tabloid fodder to become the most sensational trial of the era.

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Jane Simon Ammeson is a freelance writer and photographer who specializes in travel, food, and personalities. She writes frequently for the Times of Northwest Indiana, Chicago Life Magazine, Edible Michiana, AAA Home & Away, and the Cincinnati Enquirer. She is the author of Murders that Made Headlines: Crimes of Indiana, A Jazz Age Murder in Northwest Indiana, and East Chicago. Alexa Elmy is a New York City-based actor, voice-over artist, and audiobook narrator. Her acting credits include the TV show Shattered (Investigation Discovery), Innards (Troma Entertainment), Ray Gun Sayonara (New Ohio Theatre), and a voice-over for Google. She holds a BA in acting from Fordham University and has also trained at Stella Adler Studio of Acting, London Dramatic Academy, and Abacus Entertainment. As a classically trained actor, she is a vocally versatile narrator. She has recorded titles in a variety of genres, including fiction, young adult, romance, mystery, contemporary nonfiction, fantasy, and sci-fi, among others.

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