Dan A. Ellis

Lady in Red: As It Came to Pass Dan A. Ellis

Contract Murder in Pass Christian - A True Story Mississippi Gulf Coast setting with roots in Gulfport - Pass Christian - New Orleans - Chicago - Mafia Connections Pass Christian - "Riviera" of the Gulf Coast - Sex, violence, murder - loss of millions in personal treasures. A Gulfport girl grows up to marry a Mafia Doctor and becomes a multi-millionairess. After his death, she had numerous sexual encounters. Her psychologist friend tells all. Hurricane Camille closed down the case investigation, resulting in a murder mystery that has never been solved after many decades have passed. Nana grew up in Gulfport during the Depression years when her father had to make up his salary deficiencies by rum-running during the piney woods moonshine making days of the 20s. Al Capone use to send his gang members to unload barges that were moored in the back streams of Bay St. Louis and stocked his trucks with contraband liquor, including high quality European imports from Haiti and Cuba and with freshly brewed "White Lightning" from the Kiln area. When Prohibition was repealed in 1933, Nana packed her few personal items and took off with one of the Capone lieutenants as he made his last illegal truck run. She ended up in Chicago where she witnessed many of the changes that were taking place during the rise of Organized Crime and early conflicts with the FBI. Pregnant and wanting an abortion, she met and became the girl friend of the Mafia doctor who was hired to perform routine ministrations and surgeries on Mafia molls and prostitutes. Through that doctor, she met and married her first husband, Dr. Sylvester Brazo, a practicing psychiatrist who also became a trusted plastic surgeon of the Mafia hierarchy. Learn of her Murder!