Rogues' Gallery: The Birth of Modern Policing and Organized Crime in Gilded Age New York by John Oller

Rogues' Gallery: The Birth of Modern Policing and Organized Crime in Gilded Age New York

John Oller

528 pages • first pub 2021 (view editions)

nonfiction dark informative mysterious medium-paced
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This is a tale of unforgettable characters- Marm Mendelbaum, a matronly German-immigrant woman who paid off cops and politicians to protect her empire of fencing stolen goods; "Clubber" Williams, a sadistic policeman who wielded a twenty-six-inch...

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