Tropicana Casino & Resort Atlantic City did not speak English, claimed Doyle's wife was a fraud, and ended his friendship with Conan Doyle. In 1929, the Ambassador was the site of the infamous Atlantic City Conference, in which a number of organized crime bosses, including Al Capone, Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano, negotiated their territorial rights after a wave of violence. In 1931, as Philadelphia gangster Mickey Duffy slept in the hotel, he was shot and killed by assailants who were never caught. The incident was dramatized in the series "Boardwalk Empire", with a character called Mieczyslaw "Mickey Doyle" Kuzik. The hotel eventually closed in the
Amy L. Lansky her perceived success at using homeopathy to "cure her son of Autism." In 2003, she published "Impossible Cure: The Promise of Homeopathy" (). This book is now used as a textbook in homeopathy schools and is cited in a number of other books on alternative health. Amy L. Lansky Amy Linda Lansky (born 1955) is an American author, computer scientist, and homeopath, noted for having written "Impossible Cure: the Promise of Homeopathy". Lansky grew up in Buffalo, New York. She received a B.A. from University of Rochester in 1977 and a M.S. (1979) and Ph.D. (1983) in Computer Science from