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
ISBN
9780544633384, 0544633385
Physical Desc
xix, 298 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Status
Lawson McGhee Library - Books
364.106 TALT
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364.106 TALT
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LC Subjects
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.
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.
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Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2017].
Language
English
ISBN
9780544633384, 0544633385
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
"The gripping true story of the origins of the Mafia in America--and the brilliant Italian-born detective who gave his life to stop it. Beginning in the summer of 1903, an insidious crime wave stirred New York City, and then the entire country, into panic. The children of Italian immigrants were kidnapped and dozens of innocent victims gunned down. Bombs tore apart tenement buildings. Judges, senators, Rockefellers, and society matrons were threatened with gruesome deaths. The perpetrators seemed both omnipresent and invisible. Their only calling card: the symbol of a black hand. The crimes whipped up the slavering tabloid press and heated ethnic tensions to the boiling point. Standing between the American public and the Black Hand's lawlessness was Joseph Petrosino. Dubbed "the Italian Sherlock Holmes, " he was a famously dogged and ingenious detective and a master of disguise. As the crimes grew ever more bizarre and the Black Hand's activities spread far beyond New York's borders, Petrosino 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. Petrosino's quest to root out the source of the Black Hand's power would take him all the way to Sicily--but at a terrible cost. The Black Hand is a fast-paced story of mystery, terror, sacrifice, and honor in turn-of-the-century America, from a master of narrative nonfiction."--Jacket.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Talty, S. (2017). The Black Hand: the epic war between a brilliant detective and the deadliest secret society in American history . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Talty, Stephan. 2017. The Black Hand: The Epic War between a Brilliant Detective and the Deadliest Secret Society in American History. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Talty, Stephan. The Black Hand: The Epic War between a Brilliant Detective and the Deadliest Secret Society in American History Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Talty, Stephan. The Black Hand: The Epic War between a Brilliant Detective and the Deadliest Secret Society in American History Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.
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