A Woman to Know: Stephanie St. Clair

I have no fear of anybody. — Stephanie

(image via The Mob Museum)

People knew her Madame Queenie, Ruler of the Harlem Numbers Rackets, mentor to mobster "Bumpy" Johnson and enemy of gangster Dutch Schultz. When Stephanie St. Clair first entered New York's organized crime world in the early 1910s, she was the only woman in the game. She built a reputation…