| Murder, Inc.:: The Mafia's Hit Men in New York City Contributor(s): Bell, Graham K. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1609491351 ISBN-13: 9781609491352 Publisher: History Press OUR PRICE: $17.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - True Crime | Organized Crime - History | United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic (dc, De, Md, Nj, Ny, Pa) |
| Dewey: 364.152 |
| LCCN: 2010042769 |
| Series: True Crime |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.48 lbs) 128 pages |
| Themes: - Locality - New York, N.Y. - Geographic Orientation - New York - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Beginning in the 1920s, an all-star team of goons, gunmen and garrotters transformed America's criminal landscape. Its membership was diverse; the mob recruited men from all ethnicities and religious backgrounds. Most were natives of the Big Apple, handpi |
Contributor Bio(s): Bell, Graham K.: - Graham Bell works for the mail service in England. He has degrees in politics, law and military history. He has been fascinated by the American Mafia for years. One of his sources is the grandson of a shooter for Al Capone. He has worked as a gold plater, civil servant and lock salesman (he sold a lock to a housewife who was babysitting for the woman who was caught with the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Suttcliffe). He is now working on a book about Robert the Bruce, a medieval Scottish king. |