A Jazz Age Murder in Northwest Indiana: The Tragic Betrayal of Nettie Diamond

Jane Simon Ammeson

Apr 2022 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Alexa Elmy

About this audiobook

Gold digging, adultery, and a slaying on Valentine's Day, 1923, in this "juicy . . . page-turner" of a true crime story (Chicago Tribune). It was a Roaring Twenties fatal attraction. Nettie Herskovitz was wealthy and widowed when she met Harry Diamond. The attentive, irresistibly sexy twenty-three-year-old suitor would become Nettie's fifth husband. He was also a bootlegger, pimp, and first-class hustler who thought he'd wed a goldmine. What Harry found instead was a fiercely independent older woman who was nobody's fool for long. Then, on February 14, 1923, Harry tried to secure his inheritance by shooting Nettie four times, once at point blank range to the head. He blamed the crime on their teenage African American chauffeur. Harry might have gotten away with it, if not for one little oversight. Nettie wasn't dead. With its combination of sin, sex, high-society scandal, and even the interference of the Ku Klux Klan, the case against the movie-star handsome Harry Diamond moved beyond tabloid fodder to become the most sensational trial of the era.

About the author

Jane Simon Ammeson writes historic true crime. She is the author of fifteen books, including How to Murder Your Wealthy Lovers and Get Away With It: Money & Mayhem in the Gilded Age, Hauntings of the Underground Railroad, and Murders That Made Headlines: Crimes of Indiana.

Alexa Elmy is a New York City-based actor, voice-over artist, and audiobook narrator. Her acting credits include the TV show Shattered (Investigation Discovery), Innards (Troma Entertainment), Ray Gun Sayonara (New Ohio Theatre), and a voice-over for Google.