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Name: 1961-08-8300099-Wilmington-Delaware
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Title: 1961-08-8300099-Wilmington-Delaware
Author: Kevin McGonegal
Language: angielski
Year: 2021
Subjects: History, United States History, United States History - Northeastern & Middle Atlantic Region, Northeastern & Middle Atlantic Region - History - General & Miscellaneous
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 9781439673188
Total pages: 18

Take a journey through crime and vice in twentieth-century Wilmington, from a Tatnall Street bawdy house to the corporate boardrooms of the DuPont Company. Visit the old New Castle County Workhouse, scene of a break-in by a lynch mob and the daring escape of a notorious murderer. A police chief trying to keep his corrupt practices under wraps, agents raiding political headquarters and a detective murdered on the street were all part of city life in the early twentieth century. In later years, stories of a professional killer pleading self-defense, hiding his connections to a mobbed-up Teamsters boss, and runaway lovers caught up in an international extortion scheme show the city's darker side. Local historian Kevin McGonegal chronicles tales of Wilmington's infamous past.