E-mail looking4lizzie@gmail.com
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March 11, 2014 | Westlake, Ohio.
LOOKING FOR LIZZIE – THE TRUE STORY OF AN OHIO MADAM, HER
SPORTING LIFE AND HIDDEN LEGACY
BY DEBRA LAPE
New nonfiction book about a...
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E-mail looking4lizzie@gmail.com
Media Kit http://tinyurl.com/kuka6qs
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 11, 2014 | Westlake, Ohio.
LOOKING FOR LIZZIE – THE TRUE STORY OF AN OHIO MADAM, HER
SPORTING LIFE AND HIDDEN LEGACY
BY DEBRA LAPE
New nonfiction book about a story that wouldn’t stay buried.
A closely-held family secret hinted at long ago, leads an amateur genealogist to uncover an end-of-the-19thcentury scandal centered on her 2nd great-grandmother. Rural Ohio is the unexpected setting for a 30-year crime
spree, where Madam Lizzie Rogers-Lape-Huffman-Larzelere-DeWitt-DeWitt-Veon-Shetler-France lived life large.
Born in pre-Civil War Kentucky, she retired from the sporting life in Chicago; resurfacing with executive zeal in Ohio
cities and towns such as Columbus, Dayton, Lima, Akron, Cuyahoga Falls, Canton, Norwalk, Shelby, Stow and
Marion.
In Marion, her disreputable establishment, The White Pigeon saloon and adjacent house of ill repute, were
frequented by a young Warren G. Harding. She
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