| Wicked Wilmington, Delaware Contributor(s): McGonegal, Kevin (Author) |
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ISBN: 1467148563 ISBN-13: 9781467148566 Publisher: History Press OUR PRICE: $19.79 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic (dc, De, Md, Nj, Ny, Pa) - True Crime | Historical - History | United States - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 975.120 |
| LCCN: 2021937191 |
| Physical Information: 0.36" H x 6.04" W x 9.07" (0.76 lbs) 160 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Take a journey through crime and vice in twentieth-century Wilmington, from a Tatnall Street bawdy house to the corporate boardrooms of the DuPont Company. Visit the old New Castle County Workhouse, scene of a break-in by a lynch mob and the daring escape of a notorious murderer. A police chief trying to keep his corrupt practices under wraps, agents raiding political headquarters and a detective murdered on the street were all part of city life in the early twentieth century. In later years, stories of a professional killer pleading self-defense, hiding his connections to a mobbed-up Teamsters boss, and runaway lovers caught up in an international extortion scheme show the city's darker side. Local historian Kevin McGonegal chronicles tales of Wilmington's infamous past. |