True Crime Philadelphia; From America's First Bank Robbery To The Real-Life Killers Who Inspired Boardwalk Empire
Lyons Press, 2021. Hardcover. Fine, fresh, apparently unread copy in equally fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 251 pp. with index. Illustrated with photographs and reproductions. Philadelphia is a city of American firsts---first zoo, first library, first computer, first hospital, first university, first art museum, first volunteer fire department. It also boasts the first bank robbery, first octo-murder, first kidnapping for ransom, first arsenic murder ring complete with soothsayers, demon lovers, womanizing witch doctors, and the evil eye. Author Kathryn Canavan takes the reader on a crime roller coaster ride over two and a half-centuries of City of Brotherly Love misdeeds from a fatal witch hunt in 1787, the 1874 kidnapping for ransom of 4-year old Charley Ross, The Muffled Murder on Pine Street (1868), A Willie Sutton bank robbery, the Prohibition illegal antics of the brothers who would be featured on "Boardwalk Empire" and many more. Fine / fine. Item #E36042
ISBN: 9781493036158
Price: $19.95