by Mari K Eder | May 27, 2023 | Op-Eds and Commentary
One of Mae Foley’s friends in the Women’s Police Reserve was Capt. Edna Pitkin. Edna was a Broadway regular, and Mae thought her a bit impulsive. One day she told Mae that she’d learned the Department wanted to test out a new bulletproof vest. She volunteered to wear... 
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... 
by Mari K Eder | Mar 1, 2023 | Newsletters
And here it comes. Friends told me they saw my next book is already listed on Amazon and available for pre-ordering. WHAT? I didn’t know it was there. Nor did I know the actual publication date until I found the listing. It is just a little more than five months...