Wicked Wilmington, Delaware

von Kevin McGonegal

162 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• ISBN: 9781540248763
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 26.07.2021
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: History Press