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City of brotherly mayhem : Philadelphia crimes & criminals / by Ron Avery.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating HV6795.P5 A84 1997
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Avery, Ron.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crime--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Crime.
- Criminals--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Criminals.
- Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Genre:
- Authors' inscriptions.
- Physical Description:
- 144 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Otis Books, 1997.
- Contents:
- Eight dead in the neck
- The murder of Octavius Catto
- The Charley Ross kidnapping
- The murderous H.H. Holmes
- Mayhem in the bloody Fifth
- The Olney bank robbery
- The arsenic ring
- The execution of Corrine Sykes
- Seymour Levin's chemistry set
- The boy in the box
- The big Pottsville heist
- The enigma of tough Tony Scoleri
- Sylvan Scolnick: big brain, big body
- Joe Kallinger & son
- The gay life of John S. Knight III.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 144).
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum's copy inscribed by the author.
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of the estate of M. Carolyn Pitts.
- ISBN:
- 0965882500
- 9780965882507
- OCLC:
- 38299730
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