Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine reviews Queen of the Con: From a Spiritualist to the Carnegie Imposter by Thomas Crowl. 

“Crowl offers an eye-opening and often amusing romp through a more innocent time, when trust was easily earned and just as easily abused. Chadwick’s real name was Elizabeth Bigley and she began stealing and defrauding as a teenager in Canada. She served a prison term for forgery in Ohio and ran a brothel before she married a Cleveland doctor named Chadwick and earned the respectability she needed to launch her audacious swindle.”—Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

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