Robert Reynolds: 560 books

Jose Froilan Gonzalez was eleven years younger than his more famous countryman, Juan Manuel Fangio. Both were Formula 1 and sports car drivers in the heyday of Formula 1 racing, the 1950s. Fangio and Gonzalez each profited from the dictatorial regime of Argentine strongman Juan Peron. In fact Fangio...

On February 12, 1963 a Northwest Orient Airlines Boeing 720B commercial airliner crashed deep in the Florida Everglades. The plane was a Boeing model slightly smaller than the 707. The 720B was most often used for short trips. More than 100 of them were in use in 1963. At takeoff the aircraft flew...

The KLM Constellation that crashed on approach to Santa Cruz Airport in Bombay, India killed all 45 persons on board. Among them were 13 American journalists, two of them Pulitzer Prize winners. They worked for Time, Scripps-Howard, Business Week and many more newspapers and publications. The flight...

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.

Joseph Canepi Jr. was the son of one of the earliest Italians to settle in Yonkers, New York. Joseph Canepi Sr. was a contractor and wealthy citizen whose business he passed on to his son. Joseph Jr. became involved involved in many shady dealings during his business career. Among these was a 1932...

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,...

"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...

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...