SINS OF NEW YORK

Hardback. A collection of the 'best-written stories' of celebrated New York crimes during the preceding 150yrs. Such noted reporters and crime writers as Edmund Pearson, Herbert Asbury, Jack Alexander and Morris Markey are among the contributors to this profile of the incorrigibles and their doings since 1799. An illumination of one phase of the social history of the teeming metropolis - life of the underworld. Murder, counterfeiting, fraud, prostitution, racketeering, the narcotics trade, and other notorious criminal pursuits are depicted in all their lurid glory. Chapter headings include : The Murder of Elma Sands: 1799; The Twenty-Third Street Murder (Pearson); The Fight for Eirie; The Railroad to Harlem; The Wars of the Tongs (Asbury); The Strange Case of the Brunette in the Plaza and the Undertaker Who Went into Reverse; The Murder of Arnold Rothstein: 1928 (Crouse); The High Falls Chase; Murder, Inc. (Berger); Vice in New York, from 'Fortune' July, 1939 + much more. 278pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Lightly browned edges and eps, faded sp. which is sl. slanted, patchily faded covers. Includes loosely inserted parts of the original dw. Nr. Vg.