Murder, inc. : the story of "the syndicate"

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Murder, inc. : the story of "the syndicate"

by Burton B. Turkus and Sid Feder

Da Capo Press, 1992

1st Da Capo Press ed

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Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Young, [1951]

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内容説明

} Murder, Inc. was the moniker of the Syndicates firing squad, a ruthless group of men guilty of professionally committing 1,000 murders. Murder, Inc. is the book that exposed the Syndicate to the eyes of the world. First published in 1951, it rose to the top of the best-seller list, but later fell out-of-print. Now, here is a new edition of the classic that tells all about the great gangsters of the late 30s and 40s: Frank Costello, Louis Lepke Buchalter, Meyer Lansky, Lucky Luciano, Buggsy Siegel, Johnny Torrio, Willie Sutton, Joey Adonis, Dutch Schultz. Here are the stories of how Pittsburgh Phil and Buggsy Goldstein literally set Puggy Feinstein on fire; how and why Kid Twist Reles sang to the D.A. for twelve straight days, confessing dozens of murders; how the killers boss, Albert Anastasia, slipped through the arms of the law.From the highest levels of the U.S. government down to the lowest levels of street crime, the Syndicate infiltrated American life. Murder, Inc. tells how it was formally organized by the nations ranking mob lords at the end of Prohibition to control all crime, from gambling to crooked politics to labor extortion and murder. It describes the carefully built organization with its board of governors and its kangaroo court, and shows how this massive and powerful organization was finally broken.For it was only from the murderers themselves that the truth could be learned. And no man was more qualified to tell the whole story than Burton Turkus, the Brooklyn assistant D.A. who listened to the killers tales and who sent seven of them to the electric chair. Together with Sid Feder, a veteran journalist, they produced Murder, Inc. , the definitive work on the most dangerous group of gangsters the law has ever known. }

目次

  • Introduction
  • Dont blame it all on Brooklyn
  • A full mooner starts a chain reaction
  • Song of murder on a holy day
  • National crime: a cartel
  • Out of a rape, a murder mob
  • The almost-assassination of Thomas E. Dewey
  • A war of extermination backfires
  • Ladies night in Murder, Inc.
  • Score one and two for the law
  • Horace Greeley never meant this
  • Mr. Arsenic gets his nameand two more
  • Sociologys stillbirth: the king of the rackets
  • They all make one mistake
  • The man who might have been president
  • The canary sangbut couldnt fly
  • The one that got away.

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