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Klondike and Myles O'Donnell were rivals of Al Capone in the beer racketeering era of the mid 1920s. When the O'Donnells tried to move in on Scarface's Cicero beer and gambling rackets, a team of hit men was dispatched to stop them. Capone was eating an evening meal when he sent out the team of killers....

Charles 'Cherry Nose" Gioe was a mobster in the Chicago syndicate led by Al Capone. In charge of gambling rackets Gioe consulted with Dutch Schultz as an emissary for Capone in the early 1930s. Later Cherry Nose was imprisoned for racketeering in Hollywood. Along with three other defendants he was convicted of bilking motion picture studios out of more than $1 million dollars.

Roger Touhy was a Prohibtion era gangster, a rival of Al Capone in Chicago. It was said that Scarface feared Touhy more than any of his enemies. In 1934 Touhy was sentenced to a long term for the kidnapping of a Polish/Russian thug named Jake Factor. His sentenced was reversed on one occasion before...

Maspeth, Queens Crimes was researched from old news accounts of the Prohibition Era of the 1920s and 1930s. Included is the robbery of a candy store, the unsolved murder of a Maspeth bootlegger/housewife, the accidental murder of a contractor/builder by a Maspeth policeman and other somewhat obscure...

Cornelius F. Gallagher was a Congressman from New Jersey's 13th District. Elected successively from the late 1950s until the early 1970s, the politician became enmeshed in a scandal in 1968. In August of '68 Life Magazine published an article tying him to a La Cosa Nostra figure in his hometown, Bayonne,...

This is a fictional book about a rogue government agency, the Department of Retirement Services, who have their own take on health care for seniors. When the wrong person loses a loved one the department gets noticed for what it is. What would you do if your love one died under mysterious circumstances?...

Diversion is as much a love story as anything. Life may not be perfect but it goes on and we try to stay on the good side as much as possible. Sometimes fate has a way of mixing things up and you don’t have much say in the matter. When a man loses his wife and baby daughter he withdraws away from...

"Crazy Joe Gallo" was a renegade mobster who was pursued by Colombo hit men for some time. An original murder plot was planned for the exclusive West Shore Towers apartment complex in Nyack, New York. Mobsters wanted to lure Gallo to apartment L-K where the hit would be put in motion. Then...

A United Airlines Boeing 727 crashed into Lake Michigan on its approach to O'Hare International Airport on August 16, 1965. The plane was the first Boeing 727 to ever crash. In the following two months two more like it came down near Cincinnati and in Salt Lake City. Yet the Federal Aviation...

Henry Taylor was a Formula One racer who switched to become a rally racer after having a serious wreck. Taylor later became a Ford executive and was captain of the British rally team for a number of years. My book looks at his career from when he began racing F1 cars for the Cooper marque, which was...

The New York Giants had beaten the Green Bay Packers at the Polo Grounds on November 19, 1944. The Packers won the Western Division and New York edged out the Washington Redskins and the Philadelphia Eagles for the Eastern Division crown. On December 17th the two professional football teams met again...

In the Eridani star system, an interlanetary translator lives on a moon where humans erupt with forearm tattoos when they mature.

Crime began to escalate during the Great Depression. The third decade of the 20th century witnessed an increase in crimes more than the decades that preceded it. On Easter Weekend 1937 three persons were found murdered in an East Side New York City apartment. One of them happened to be a lovely young...

Poliomyelitis was a dreaded illness in the 20th century until its eradication thanks to the Salk Vaccine that was introduce in 1954. My book looks at the impact made by infantile paralysis over a single region, i.e. the towns, cities and counties of upstate New York. I have detailed various measures...