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Wicked Wilmington, Delaware
Kevin McGonegal
出版Arcadia Publishing, 2021-07-26
主題History / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)True Crime / HistoricalHistory / United States / 20th Century
ISBN14396731879781439673188
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=KhY0EAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.