This year, I'm moseying on over to Instagram with what feels like the rest of the book world. I would appreciate a follow at "anniemreed"! #bookstagram #history #truecrime

Edna Gordon left home to chase adventure at age 22, and became a swindler. "It may seem incredible...but it is the truth when I say that in the year 1882 I made $100,000. I was known among the crooks in those days as the "Confidence Queen." --Rock Island Argus, 1898 #history

Desperate times called for desperate measures--this belt apparently could hold “enough liquor for sixty-eight whisky glasses.” --Indianapolis Times, February 1929. #history

This year for #WomensHistoryMonth , I'm switching to the other side and profiling early female detectives. This week: Kate Warne.

This week, meet Mary Grace Quackenbos, AKA "Mrs. Sherlock Holmes" #WomensHistoryMonth

This week, meet Isabella Goodwin, who said she was proud to "show just what a woman can do when a chance comes her way." #WomensHistoryMonth

Looking for a good read for #WomensHistoryMonth? The audiobook for The Impostor Heiress is 50% off now through April 13! Link below. Happy reading! audiobooks.com/promotions/pro…

I so enjoyed talking with #DarkSideofTheLand about Cassie Chadwick! Give it a listen below, and stay tuned for their new series about Cleveland's Wicked Women! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cle…

Season 2's opera wars really did happen! Denied boxes at the Academy of Music, a group of new money families started the Metropolitan Opera. This led to an opening night showdown. The Met was a smashing success–in time, even Caroline Astor attended. #thegildedagehbo #History

Peggy' s character was partially based on Ida B. Wells, trailblazing writer, suffragist, and civil rights activist. As a journalist, she investigated lynchings, writing articles, pamphlets, and eventually a book, exposing it in all its brutality. #thegildedagehbo

(Potential) SPOILERS!! In Season 3, Bertha may get manipulative. Alva Vanderbilt wanted her daughter Consuelo to marry royalty, but Consuelo had her heart set on another man. Alva swore she’d shoot the man, be hanged, and both deaths would be Consuelo’s fault. #thegildedagehbo

The Impostor Heiress has been out for a year this month!! To celebrate, the audiobook is currently 75% off! Click below for the true story of a #gildedage fraud! audiobooks.com/promotions/pro…

( Maybe)SPOILER! With a focus on divorce this season, expect drama. Here's an Alva Vanderbilt quote: "I always do everything first. I blaze the trail for the rest...I was the first society woman to ask for a divorce, and within a year ever so many others had followed" #gildedage

I'm starting a (free!) newsletter! Looking to learn about women the history books passed over? Itching to read about ladies who were up to no good (like the BFFs who ran a swindling syndicate together)? Subscribe below! #history #gildedage anniereed2.substack.com

New substack is up! Fair warning: If you like all your mysteries definitively solved, this one may not be for you. #history #TrueCrime anniereed2.substack.com/p/the-veiled-m…

New susbtack is up! This week, some practical advice for any of you contemplating a swindle. #TheGildedAge #truecrime open.substack.com/pub/anniereed2…