BIG CITY D.A.

Hardback. The author tells how a major crime-busting operation cracked (and now and then botched) some of the most sensational cases of murder, mayhem and corruption in New York City history. Straight-shooting, touch-talking district attorney of the Bronx, Mario Merola was, until his untimely death in October 1987, the man behind most big-time prosecutions in the city in the previous decade or so: the terrifying, though sometimes farcical, Son of Sam affair; the Buddy Jacobson story (a horse trainer turned model-agency entrepreneur brutally murdered the boyfriend of his former girlfriend, both of whom lived in his Park Avenue building); the PRACA Day Care Centre child molestation disgrace; the killing of crazed 67yr old black grandmother Eleanor Bumpurs by a white policeman trying to evict her; and the unsuccessful reindictment of former Secretary of Labor Raymond Donovan for alleged organised crime involvement. 242pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Vg+ in Vg+ dw.