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Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A contemporary take on the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes who investigates crimes in modern-day New York City as a consultant to the NYPD and is assisted by Joan Watson, a former surgeon, who is hired by Holmes' wealthy father to help keep the eccentric detective sober.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Through profiles of the most colorful and powerful crime bosses, gang members, corrupt cops, and numerous mob associates as well as pivotal events in the history of organized crime, Big Apple Gangsters reveals just how influential the mob has been in controlling large numbers of business not just in New York, but also in other cities"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The inside story--from the organizer himself--of the largest unrecovered cash haul in history. This full account brings readers behind the heist memorialized in Goodfellas, a crime that has baffled law enforcement for decades. From Henry Hill himself, The Lufthansa Heist is the last book he worked on before his 2012 death. On December 11, 1978, a daring armed robbery rocked Kennedy Airport, resulting in the largest unrecovered cash haul in world history,...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
This harrowing tale of early twentieth century New York reveals the true stories of an immigrant underworld, a secret vice squad, and the rise of organized crime. In the early 1900s, prior to World War I, New York City was a vortex of vice and corruption. On the Lower East Side, then the most crowded ghetto on earth, Eastern European Jews formed a dense web of crime syndicates. Gangs of horse poisoners and casino owners, pimps and prostitutes, thieves...
10) Kings of vice
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Twenty years ago, Marcus "Crush" Casey was the leader of the Vicetown Kings, the most powerful crime syndicate in New York City. Then he was betrayed by his second-in-command and sent to prison. Now he's back on the streets and he needs to take back everything he lost-- find the friend who betrayed him and killed his only son; keep the cops at bay; and resist the one woman he knows he can't have.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A contemporary take on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson. Sherlock Holmes investigates crimes in modern-day New York City as a consultant to the NYPD and is assisted by Dr. Joan Watson, a former surgeon, who is hired by Holmes' wealthy father to help keep the eccentric detective sober.
14) Fourth down
Author
Series
Buck and Keegan mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
St Martins Pr
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Reminiscent of Wiseguy, this compelling biography from two prominent mob experts recounts the life and times of the first acting boss of an American Mafia family to turn government witness As top boss of the Luchese crime family, Alfonso "Little Al" D'Arco was the highest-ranking mobster to ever share Mafia secrets when he changed sides in 1991. His testimony sent more than fifty mobsters to prison, and prompted others to make the same choice, including...
18) Button Man
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Following up The One Man and The Saboteur, Gross's next historical thriller brings to life the drama of the birth of organized crime in 1930s New York City from the tale of one family"-- Provided by publisher.
1930s, New York's Lower East Side. At the death of their father, Morris Rabishevsky, twelve, apprenticed himself to a garment cutter in a clothing factory; Sol headed to accounting school; but Harry fell in with a gang of thugs. Morris steadily...
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Perfect Crimes Meet the Perfect Match. In the City That Never Sleeps, one mind never rests. The eccentric detective Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) possesses an unquenchable thirst for intellectual puzzles and a ruthless instinct for justice. As a consulting detective to the NYPD, he takes on bizarre cases that baffle the most seasoned cops. But he can't do it alone. Holmes relies on Joan Watson (Lucy Liu), a former physician who's the one person...
20) Mafiya
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Former prostitute Agnes Lynn, aided by her lover, ex-cop Jack Russo, battles the Russian Mafiya as she seeks vengeance for the brutal murder of her friend Rachel Wilson.
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