Carefree, reckless, flappers seemed to enjoy living on the edge, like these atop Chicago’s Sherman Hotel. George Rinhart / Corbis via Getty Images She was the sexy ingénue, spending evenings in ...

She’s a flapper turned deadly, convicted of murdering her husband with a hammer back in 1927. Her sensational trial played out like a scene out of the Broadway show Chicago. Velma West was ...