Beautiful But Deadly

From a review of The Girls of Murder City: Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers Who Inspired Chicago.

The sexual dynamic of Chicago changed swiftly and dramatically n the early decades of the 20th century, according to Douglas Perry’s The Girls of Murder City: Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers Who Inspired Chicago. Single girls from the country were living all alone in the big city for the first time. The shops, the offices, the factories all needed women to smile pretty, to take dictation, and sew. The cabarets and speakeasies needed them to bring in men. Flash a little leg in a song and dance act and you can go from penniless and scared to big time actress. Or, if luck had it, you could even become Mrs. So-and-So Industrialist, your every need met.

Lady Trouble