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Gangster City: The History of the New York Underworld 1900-1935

Author Patrick Downey
Publisher Barricade Books
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ISBN / ASIN1569803617
ISBN-139781569803615
Sales Rank832,098
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸

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Gangster City is an illustrated treasure trove of information about crime in New York from 1900 through the 1930s. During these years, some six hundred mob-connected individuals met their deaths by being shot, stabbed, garroted, or hacked into pieces. Told in depth are the exploits of such notorious killers are Jack Legs Diamond, cabaret entrepreneur Larry Fay, the sadistic Dutch Schultz, and the cold-blooded Coll gang.