American Mafia: A History of Its Rise to Power - Hardcover

Reppetto, Thomas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805072101 ISBN 13: 9780805072105

Verlag: Henry Holt & Co, 2004

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An unbiased history of the mafia's rise from the 1880s to the post-World War II era features the case stories of such characters as Lucky Luciano and Al Capone, noting the particular role the prohibition had in the establishment of the mafia's defining characteristics and ability to infiltrate industry and government. 35,000 first printing.

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Thomas Reppetto is a former Chicago commander of detectives and has been the president of New York City's Citizens Crime Commission for more than twenty years. He is the author of NYPD: A City and Its Police, a New York Times Notable Book. He lives in New York City.

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From American Mafia :

With the Lupo Morello gang now implicated in the barrel murder case, the investigation got going in earnest. The police had found a small crucifix, sawdust and cigar stubs, and a perfumed handkerchief with a note written in Italian. Police detective Petrosino translated the note as "come at once," suggesting that a woman had lured the victim to his death. An examination of the dead man's stomach revealed evidence of a recently consumed Sicilian meal. Familiar with Morello's restaurant-known for a floor littered with sawdust and cigar butts-Petrosino deduced that the victim had been killed there, and then taken by horse-drawn wagon to the Lower East Side. Yet he had no evidence to back up a murder charge in court: there was a surplus of defendants and a scarcity of evidence. The case was handled in the standard procedure of the day: arrest the suspects, then find the incriminating evidence. And, as often happened, the police came up short, despite the best efforts of the indomitable Petrosino.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Henry Holt & Co
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0805072101
• ISBN 13: 9780805072105
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352
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