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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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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:162 pages
- Publisher:History PR
- Publication Date:26/07/2021
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- ISBN:9781540248763
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:162 pages
- Publisher:History PR
- Publication Date:26/07/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9781540248763
