(DOWNLOAD) "Wicked Wilmington, Delaware" by Kevin McGonegal # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Wicked Wilmington, Delaware
- Author : Kevin McGonegal
- Release Date : January 26, 2021
- Genre: United States,Books,History,Nonfiction,True Crime,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : KB
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.