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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Sex Money Murder Sex Money Murder Jonathan Green (Journalist) A portrait of the violent drug wars of the Bronx in the late 1980s and early 1990s documents the surge of crack cocaine's popularity and the murderous territory disputes among its dealers, tracing th… OL19741516W
Blood aces Blood aces Doug J. Swanson "The astonishing story of Benny Binion-a rip-roaring saga of murder, money, and the making of Las Vegas. Benny Binion was many things: a cowboy, a pioneering casino owner, a gangster, a killer, and f… OL19984114W
Crooked Brooklyn Crooked Brooklyn Michael Vecchione "From 2001 to 2013, Mike Vecchione was chief of the Rackets Division in the Brooklyn District Attorney's office, which was the largest urban prosecution agency in the country. Vecchione grappled with… OL20015338W
Snatched Snatched Bruce Porter "Raised an aristocrat in Colombia and educated in European schools, Pilar transfixes everyone with her charm and her guile. She also falls for dangerous men and finds herself drawn into the highest l… OL20027353W
Rose City Vice Rose City Vice Phil Stanford 98 pages : 23 cm OL20200236W
Gangsters and organized crime in Jewish Chicago Gangsters and organized crime in Jewish Chicago Alex Garel-Frantzen "Al Capone. The Untouchables. The Valentine's Day massacre. You may think you know everything about the Roaring Twenties in the Windy City, but in the early twentieth century, the harsh environment o… OL23330211W