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, Experience Curacao, Experience Rivera May, Nashville Tennessean and Cincinnati Enquirer. She is the author of Hauntings of the Underground Railroad: Ghosts of the Midwest, A Jazz Age Murder in Northwest Indiana and East Chicago.

• Introduction1. Catherine Schumaker: An Indiana Lucretia Borgia2. An Unfortunate Indiana Family: Minnie May and Luella Mabbitt3. Jane Dorsey and the Poison Powders4. The Death of Susan Beaver5. Miss Bryan's Last Cry6. Rough on Rats: How Not to Win Your Man7. The Disappearance of Carrie Selvage8. No Way to Treat Your Lovers9. Bootlegging, Missing Wills, Disappearing Jewels, Deadly Encounters: The Story Of Nettie and Harry Diamond10. The Lady and The Dragon: How Madge Overholtzer Brought Down the KKK11. Double IndemnitySelected Bibliography

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, Experience Curacao, Experience Rivera May, Nashville Tennessean and Cincinnati Enquirer. She is the author of Hauntings of the Underground Railroad: Ghosts of the Midwest, A Jazz Age Murder in Northwest Indiana and East Chicago.

• Introduction1. Catherine Schumaker: An Indiana Lucretia Borgia2. An Unfortunate Indiana Family: Minnie May and Luella Mabbitt3. Jane Dorsey and the Poison Powders4. The Death of Susan Beaver5. Miss Bryan's Last Cry6. Rough on Rats: How Not to Win Your Man7. The Disappearance of Carrie Selvage8. No Way to Treat Your Lovers9. Bootlegging, Missing Wills, Disappearing Jewels, Deadly Encounters: The Story Of Nettie and Harry Diamond10. The Lady and The Dragon: How Madge Overholtzer Brought Down the KKK11. Double IndemnitySelected Bibliography