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Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
02 January 2025

Anastasia tale told by his priest brother

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I've been reading Anastasia Mio Fratello  (Edizioni di Novissima, 1967), written by Albert Anastasia's little brother, Rev. Salvator...
14 December 2024

New in paperback: Fred 'Killer' Burke

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Just released: Fred “Killer” Burke: The Hunt for the Most Dangerous Man Alive by Chriss Lyon. The book is available in paperback, 394 pages...
16 November 2024

November release planned for Gangster Hunters

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Gangster Hunters How Hoover’s G-Men Vanquished America’s Deadliest Public Enemies by John Oller John Olle...
16 January 2024

William Flynn bio, 'Bulldog Detective'

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The Bulldog Detective: William J. Flynn and America's First War Against the Mafia, Spies, and Terrorists by Jeffrey D. Simon was releas...
09 November 2023

'In Our Blood' by Justin Cascio

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In Our Blood: The Mafia Families of Corleone by Justin Cascio is now available in hardcover, paperback and ebook editions. While the Maf...
24 October 2023

'Mafia Dreams' by Frank Hayde

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Mafia Dreams: A True Crime Saga of Young Men at the End of an Era in Kansas City by Frank Hayde (BookBaby, July 2023). Paperback 228 pages....
04 January 2023

'Uncle Charlie' and the Jewish Mob

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In Uncle Charlie Killed Dutch Schultz , author Alan Geik tells of his family's connection to noteworthy Jewish-American gan...
27 December 2022

'Ten Notches' examines Pretty Boy Floyd

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Ten Notches: Murders Committed by Pretty Boy Floyd , written by Jeffery S. King, tells the life story of Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy...
05 November 2021

Author discusses Polly Adler bio, 'Madam'

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In this interview by Gerald Howard for CUNY's Leon Levy Center for Biography, biographer Debby Applegate discusses her just-released boo...
27 September 2021

October 2021 issue of Informer

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Mafiosi of the West Coast Our look at mobsters who set up shop on America's West Coast begins with excerpts from a fact-based crime no...
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01 September 2021

NYC revolutions in policing and in crime

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Press release: Chilling and thought-provoking, John Oller's Rogues' Gallery (available September 21, 2021, in hardcover and ebook f...
29 November 2020

McKeever-McNeiley: Troublesome robbery gang

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 Jeffery S. King, author of The Rise and Fall of the Dillinger Gang , The Life and Death of Pretty Boy Floyd and Kill-Crazy Gang , here tur...
29 October 2019

Intimate family portrait, detailed Mafia history

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[Disclaimer: The author provided me with several revisions of Colorado's Carlino Brothers before publication. I contributed edit sugge...
18 September 2017

'Gangland Boston' due in October

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Gangland Boston , due out in October 2017, is the newest book by Boston Globe crime reporter and author Emily Sweeney. (In 2012, Sweeney re...
26 June 2017

Summer 2017 issue of Informer

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Informer - Aug 2017  - AVAILABLE NOW in print and electronic editions IN THIS ISSUE: - Excerpt from Dock Boss by Neil...
30 December 2016

One week left in giveaway

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There is just one more week to enter for a chance to win a signed copy of Wrongly Executed? The Long-Forgotten Context of Charles ...
15 December 2016

Chance to win a copy of 'Wrongly Executed?'

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Three author-signed trade paperback copies of Wrongly Executed? The Long-Forgotten Context of Charles Sberna's 1939 Electrocution will...
01 November 2016

Organized crime's 'strategic logic'

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I recently received a complimentary review copy of James Cockayne's book, Hidden Power: The Strategic Logic of Organized Crime (Oxford ...
22 October 2016

'Wrongly Executed?' You decide

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I have been finishing up a manuscript relating to the 1939 electric-chair execution of convicted cop-killer Charles Sberna. Sberna's na...