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  • Secret Partners

    Big Tom Brown and the Barker Gang

    de Tim Mahoney ...
    Among the most dangerous criminals of the public enemies era was a man who has long hidden in history's shadows: Tom Brown. In the early 1930s, while he was police chief of St. Paul, Minnesota, Brown became a secret partner of the infamous Barker gang. He profited from their violent crimes, he protected the gang from raids by the nascent FBI—and while he did all this, the gangsters gunned down ... Leer más

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  • Operation Family Secrets

    How a Mobster's Son and the FBI Brought Down Chicago's Murderous Crime Family

    The chilling true story of how the son of the most violent mobster in Chicago helped bring down the last great American crime syndicate: the one-hundred-year-old Chicago Outfit.In Operation Family Secrets, Frank Calabrese, Jr. reveals for the first time the outfit’s “made” ceremony and describes being put to work alongside his father and uncle in loan sharking, gambling, labor racketeering, and ... Leer más

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  • Silver Bullets

    Traducido por Mark Fried ...
    Tormented by past heartbreak and contemporary politics, for Edgar 'Lefty' Mendieta the news of the murder of lawyer Bruno Canizales represents just another day at the office in the drug-ridden city of Culiacán.It soon becomes clear that there is no shortage of suspects in a city where it's hard to tell the gangsters from the politicians. Canizales was the son of a former government minister and ... Leer más

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  • The Laundrymen - Inside Money Laundering, The World's Third Largest Business

    "Jeffrey Robinson has written what nearly amounts to a textbook on the transformation of ill-gotten gains into seemingly legal currency." USA Today"An indictment of governments and banks that are unwilling to deal decisively with an industry that handles $200-$500 billion a year." Business Week"Should be ready by anyone who wants to learn why the world is in such sorry shape." Philadelphia ... Leer más

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  • Mobsters, Madams & Murder in Steubenville, Ohio

    The Story of Little Chicago

    de Susan Guy ...
    This true crime history chronicles more than a century in the life of a small Midwestern city with an outsized reputation for violence and vice.Gambling, prostitution and bootlegging have been going on in Steubenville for well over century. In its heyday, the city's Water Street red-light district drew men from hundreds of miles away, as well as underage runaways. The white slave trade was rampant ... Leer más

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  • Eliot Ness

    The Rise and Fall of an American Hero

    de Douglas Perry ...
    The story of Eliot Ness, the legendary lawman who led the Untouchables, took on Al Capone, and saved a city’s soulAs leader of an unprecedented crime-busting squad, twenty-eight-year-old Eliot Ness won fame for taking on notorious mobster Al Capone. But the Untouchables’ daring raids were only the beginning of Ness’s unlikely story.This new biography grapples with the charismatic lawman’s ... Leer más

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  • Touhy vs. Capone

    The Chicago Outfits Biggest Frame Job

    de Don Herion ...
    In this true crime history, a Chicago cop uncovers the epic gangland saga that led to a former bootlegger's assassination in 1959.When beat cop Don Herion and his partner responded to shots fired on December 16, 1959, they didn't know that they had heard the final, fatal salvo in one of the most contorted conflicts in the history of organized crime. Back in the 1930s, bootlegger and Irish mob boss ... Leer más

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  • Who Killed the Candy Lady?

    Unwrapping the Unsolved Murder of Helen Brach

    de James Ylisela ...
    A deep dive that "has brought together all the evidence" in the fascinating cold case of a millionaire widow, the Chicago horse mafia, and murder ( Daily Mail).Thirty-five years ago, Helen Brach walked out of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and vanished without a trace. By all accounts, the sixty-five-year-old heiress to the E.J. Brach & Sons candy fortune was in good health. But shortly ... Leer más

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  • Milwaukee Mafia

    de Gavin Schmitt ...
    Series series Images of America
    Milwaukee is best known for its beer - and rightfully so. But in the days of Prohibition, the big alcohol suppliers were not Miller, Blatz, Schlitz, and Pabst. The Mafia had control, and it made its money by running alcohol as far away as Canada and Indiana, as well as with counterfeiting, the numbers racket, and two of the biggest heists in American history. From then on, the sky was the limit, ... Leer más

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  • Seattle Vice

    Strippers, Prostitution, Dirty Money, and Crooked Cops in the Emerald City

    de Rick Anderson ...
    For more than half a century, Frank Colacurcio and his crime family have been a force in the bars and backrooms of Seattle power and politics, an American crime boss reign to match those of the often-glamorized Mafia dons of New York and Chicago. Seattle Vice tells the story of the Pacific Northwest's most successful strip club owner, Frank Colacurcio, whose excessive appreciation for girls has ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • African American Topeka

    de Sherrita Camp ...
    Series series Images of America
    African Americans arrived in Topeka right before and after the Civil War and again in large numbers during the Exodus Movement of 1879 and Great Migration of 1910. They came in protest of the treatment they received in the South. The history of dissent lived on in Topeka, as it became the home to court cases protesting discrimination of all kinds. African Americans came to the city determined that ... Leer más

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  • Ghosts of Madison, Indiana

    Series series Haunted America
    Downtown Madison, the largest contiguous National Historic Landmark in the United States, provides the perfect haunts for poltergeists and playful spirits.Beautifully preserved mid-nineteenth-century buildings grace the streets of Madison, Indiana, providing a concrete connection to the past. But a more ethereal, ghostly link flits about these streets when night descends. Restive spirits linger ... Leer más

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