The Black Hand : the epic war between a brilliant detective and the deadliest secret society in American history
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Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2017].
Format
Book
Physical Desc
xix, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Status
Oliver La Farge - Adult
364.106 Tal
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364.106 Tal
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Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2017].
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-280) and index.
Description
Beginning in the summer of 1903 the children of Italian immigrants were kidnapped, and dozens of innocent victims were gunned down. Bombs tore apart tenement buildings. Judges, senators, Rockefellers, and society matrons were threatened with gruesome deaths. The perpetrators' only calling card: the symbol of a black hand. The tabloid press heated ethnic tensions to the boiling point. Joseph Petrosino, a dogged and ingenious detective, and the all-Italian police squad he assembled, raced to capture members of the secret criminal society before the country's anti-immigrant tremors exploded into catastrophe.
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Case studies.
Extortion -- United States -- Case studies.
Italian Americans -- Crimes against -- Case studies.
Italians -- Crimes against -- United States -- Case studies.
Mafia -- United States -- Case studies.
Murder -- United States -- Case studies.
Organized crime -- United States -- Case studies.
True crime stories.
Extortion -- United States -- Case studies.
Italian Americans -- Crimes against -- Case studies.
Italians -- Crimes against -- United States -- Case studies.
Mafia -- United States -- Case studies.
Murder -- United States -- Case studies.
Organized crime -- United States -- Case studies.
True crime stories.