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Wicked Wilmington, Delaware

By Kevin McGonegal

Book information

Publisher
Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Year
2021
ISBN
9781439673188, 2021937191, 9781467148566
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (2640510 bytes)
Series
Wicked
Pages
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Time added
2022-10-02 15:54:44
HIS036060HIS036080HistoryNonfictionTRU010000True Crime

Description

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.

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