Fritzie

In January 1923, a boy came across the dead body of a twenty-year-old woman on a San Diego beach. Police found the woman's calling card, which read simply, "I am Fritzie Mann." Yet Fritzie's identity, as revealed in this compelling history, was anything but simple, and her death-eventually ruled a homicide-captured public attention. In Fritzie, historian Amy Absher reveals how broader cultural forces shaped the course of Mann's life and contributed to her tragic death. Contains mature themes.