Undisclosed Files of the Police: Cases from the Archives of the NYPD from 1831 to the Present
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| Rating | : | 4.65 (730 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01N3KUH4M |
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| Number of Pages | : | 480 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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It is also a great gift idea for the True Crime aficionados I am absolutely enjoying this book. It is also a great gift idea for the True Crime aficionados.. Very entertaining! I found this to be a very interesting read,from the early years up to the present! I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys this genre!. A Definite Addition to One's True Crime Library Bill Emblom I enjoy reading about true crime stories particularly those in New York and Chicago regarding the mobsters and this book provides several stories not mob related of which I remember taking place that I haven't found in other books. The photos in the book are quite compelling many of which are full-page and in black-and-white. The authors have made excellent choices in choosing which ones to include although I would have liked to have the mob-hits of Joey Gallo and Carmine Galante included in the book as wel
More than 175 years of true crimes culled from the city's police blotter, told through startling, insightful text by two NYPD officers and a NYC crime reporter. From atrocities that occurred before the establishment of New York's police force in 1845 through the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in 2001 to the present day, this history is an insider's look at more than 80 real-life crimes that shocked the nation, from arson to gangland murders, robberies, serial killers, bombings, and kidnappings, including: Architect Stanford White's fatal shooting at Madison Square Garden over his deflowering of a teenage chorus girl The anarchist bombing of Wall Street in 1920, which killed 39 people and injured hundreds more with flying shrapnel The 1928 hit at the Park Sheraton Hotel on mobster Arnold Rothstein, who died refusing to name his shooter Kitty Genovese's 1964 senseless s