By Marvin J. Wolf
Rotten Apples is a completely investigated treasure of actual crime directly from the streets of the town that by no means Sleeps. This bushel of vice, sufferers, and vengeance spotlights sinister voters from Boss Tweed and Typhoid Mary to Mark David Chapman and Jack Henry Abbot, plus distinct map references to steer you to the destinations the place they devoted their grisly crimes. you can be surprised by...
Murder via Morphine
Playboy scientific pupil Carlyle Harris was once wanting to finish his mystery marriage to a fine looking younger girl from the incorrect facet of the tracks. A deadly prescription looked to be simply what death's health care professional ordered. however the eyes of a corpse by no means lie...
Goodbar, As In Nuts
Roseann Quinn was once a tender, appealing schoolteacher dwelling the carefree singles lifetime of the early seventies on Manhattan's higher West aspect. the boys she took domestic have been strictly one-night stands, yet one in every of them made definite he left his mark on her--eighteen times...
Son of Sam
For greater than a yr, the fellow dubbed " The .44 quality Killer" held the town paralyzed with worry: spraying demise from the muzzle of a high-powered handgun, murdering and maiming greater than a dozen younger women and men, bold New York's best to finish his bloody spree, and touching off the most important manhunt in manhattan felony background. in spite of everything, he acknowledged the satan made him do it...
And--if you're thinking that you could take it--much, a lot more...
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She knows books and authors. She knows New York, having spent most of her life in Manhattan. And James knows New Yorkers. Mader created a research plan. Bursting with enthusiasm, James did much of the legwork. She did a terrific job. James had help from New York screenwriter Stanley Ralph Ross. He saved her many hours by recalling the location and new name of an old Coney Island hotel where a Mafia stool pigeon took flight. Charles Rembar, author of a book on libel, was very helpful in deciphering the obliquely snide slurs used by New York newspaper editors in the Thirties.
Though urged to confess and save his soul, Hughson protested his innocence to the end. He rode to his appointment with the gallows in an open cart. He stood the whole way, his arm raised and his index finger pointing skyward, as though calling upon the heavens to intervene. Neither God nor anyone else came to his aid. Hughson, his wife, and Peggy Kerry were hung together. Afterward the bodies of Hughson and Caesar were hung from a gibbet as a warning to all. Then it was time to execute the other accused slaves.
In North America the New York slave market was second only to Charleston’s. By 1741 one in five of New York’s eleven thousand residents was black. They were all slaves, except for a tiny handful of elderly freedmen in the Bowery. Slaves lived by strict laws. If three or more were found congregating on a public highway, all were subject to flogging. Nor were slaves permitted to carry such implements as axes or clubs except when actually on their master’s property. Nevertheless New York slaves found occasional opportunities to meet away from the suspicious eyes of their white owners.