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Canavan, Kathryn, author.
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Crime -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History.
Criminals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Biography.
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History.
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Biography.
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True crime Philadelp...
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True crime Philadelphia : from America's first bank robbery to the real-life killers who inspired Boardwalk Empire / Kathryn Canavan.
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Canavan, Kathryn, author.
Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, [2021]
Subjects
Crime -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History.
Criminals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Biography.
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History.
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781493036158 (hardcover : alk. paper) :
1493036157 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Description:
xi, 251 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
Lillian Reis : so sexy she was arrested for doing the twist fully-clothed -- The maid did it -- Willie Sutton, the making of a folk hero -- Self-made widows -- The six Philadelphia brothers fictionalized on Boardwalk empire -- The prison where Al Capone was a file clerk -- The most sensational robbery in Philadelphia history -- Philly during Prohibition : wet as the Atlantic Ocean -- H.H. Holmes meets the hangman here -- America's first kidnapping -- The assassination of Octavius v. Catto -- The muffled murder on Pine Street -- Anton Probst : one of America's first serial killers -- The Bible riots : Catholics vs. Protestants -- The nation's first bank robbery -- The fatal witch hunt during the 1787 Constitutional Convention.
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"A tour through Philadelphia that highlights the locations within each neighborhood where crime occurred"--
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Hawaii State Library
Social Science & Philosophy
364.97481 Ca
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