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According to Lona Manning, New York Police Department, “policewoman Mary
Sullivan was banished from the undercover assignments she loved, to a succession of dreary station-houses, doing the usual
woman’s work – looking after lost children and guarding female suspects. It was the height of the Roaring Twenties,
there were plenty of bootleggers, drug traffickers and fake fortune-tellers to apprehend, and Sullivan, a young widow with
a friendly Irish manner, impressed her superiors with her ability to transform herself into a dance hall girl or a society
dame looking for a good speakeasy.” Mary Sullivan’s Biography, My Double Life: The Story of a New York Policewoman,
was originally published in 1938 and re-released in 1983.
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