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Queen of Thieves is the gritty, fast-paced account of Fredericka "Marm" Mandelbaum, a poor Jewish female who increased to the most notable of her occupation in organized offense during the Gilded Age in New York City. During her more than twenty-five-year reign as the country's top receiver of stolen goods, she accumulated great riches and vitality inconceivable for females engaged in business, legitimate or otherwise. The called Mandelbaum the nucleus and center of the whole organization of offense in New York City. Having emigrated from Germany in 1850, she started her climb to the most notable of the offense world as a peddler on the rough-and-tumble, congested streets of the town. By 1880, she experienced amassed a lot of money approximated at more than $1 million. Mandelbaum was known for operating an orderly legal business. She enlisted the services of an comprehensive network of scammers of every ilk and bribed law enforcement officials officers, politicians, and judges. If someone wished to move stolen goods, needed safety from the law, or searched for money to funding a caper, Marm was the individual to see.In 1884, Mandelbaum escaped from the handbags of Pinkerton detectives, who were casing her house, and fled to Canada. Mandelbaum lived out the rest of her life in luxury on a tiny plantation with her family and ill-got fortune. Hundreds of men and women turned out on her behalf funeral. Dozens of men and women later reported to law enforcement officials that that they had their pockets picked at the service.
