Sophie Lyons was arguably the most prolific female criminal of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.I’m pleased to announce that my book, Queen of the Burglars: The Scandalous Life of Sophie Lyons is now available.
Sophie’s life, beginning with her upbringing in New York City by parents who were criminals, has never been chronicled before. She was a pickpocket, con artist, bank robber and blackmailer. But while most of her male criminal colleagues ended up penniless, Sophie amassed a fortune by the time she died in 1924.
Captured and Exposed 