by Mari K Eder | Mar 5, 2024 | Newsletters
“Guilty, guilty, guilty!” In thirty minutes the defendants in the “Lucky” Luciano mob trial, all nine of them, heard those words 549 times. They were all going to prison. Mae Foley, NYPD policewoman seconded to the District Attorney’s office... 
by Mari K Eder | Jul 5, 2023 | Newsletters
For the past two years, I’ve spent a considerable amount of time with my new friends, The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line. Those intrepid women, trailblazers in the World War II years and beyond, kept me company throughout the empty span of the pandemic. I learned their... 
by Mari K Eder | May 25, 2023 | Op-Eds and Commentary
Over Memorial Day 2022, I spent some time getting to know the streets of NewYork City as Mae Foley, a new policewoman in the 1920s and 1930s, would haveknown them as part of my research for The Girls Who Fought Crime. I saw the locations for speakeasies, the route she...