Most of her life was star-studded. The book begins with an encounter with Al Capone and, even before the Sunflower Inn era, notable characters coursed through Cromwell’s life. You will know something about such other nefarious folks as Johnny Torrio and Big Jim Colosimo, but Cromwell also gives us Eddie Mack, with whom she had one of her most significant relationships. As Ward writes in a footnote, “Eddie Mack was one of the many names used by the notorious gangster. His real name was John Jerge. He was a skilled bank robber who operated throughout the Midwest and East Coast doing jobs for hire from the early 1900s until his death in 1928. His murder, run down by a car in the middle of Times Square in New York City, was never solved and rumored to be a hit.”