One day, a charming young lady, clearly from high society, visited the most respected Odessa jeweler, Karl von Mehl. Introducing herself as the wife of a famous psychiatrist, she chose the most exquisite and expensive jewelry. Von Mehl had no idea that in front of him was the great thief Sonya the Golden Hand. And that he will be drawn into one of the most scandalous scams of the twentieth century. This book contains stories about the queens of Odessa gangs. Sonya Zolotaya Ruchka, “Baroness” Olga von Stein, young Margarita Dmitrievskaya nicknamed “Bloody Daisy”... Who are they? Cruel leaders of criminal gangs, legendary swindlers and swindlers, or just women who gracefully took revenge on the world for broken destinies?