Robert Reynolds: 560 books

Buffalo nightclub owner/restaurateur Roy Carlisi was one of fifty-eight men who attended the notorious Apalachin meeting of November 14, 1957. Held at the home of businessman Joseph Barbara Sr., it is a legendary incident in the annals of U.S. mob history. Carlisi was closely associated with the Stefano...

Vincent Coll was originally from County Donegal in Ireland. During his early life he was institutionalized in Catholic institutions for the indigent and truant youths in New York City. His first criminal offenses involved citations for juvenile delinquency. He lived for a time with his half-sister...

Indigo buntings are a fascinating songbird of the eastern United States, much of the midwest, and part of the western U.S. The male indigo is a beautiful indigo, azure, ultramarine hue with ample sunlight on him. He molts in the fall and loses much of his brilliance. The female is a brown color, which...

I believe that the successful plot to murder President John F. Kennedy took shape in New Orleans during the summer of 1963. It was then that W. Guy Banister ran a detective office where malcontents, right wingers and perhaps left wing radicals also frequented. Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged Presidential...

Whooping cough has been around since the 15th Century, with the first epidemic having occurred in the Paris in the 1500s. It is a complex illness, which is often taken lightly, especially in its earliest stage. A child often comes down with what is thought to be a cold. He/she has a runny nose, red...

Fritz Gebhardt was murdered by his jealous lover in the early morning hours of November 12, 1935. Vera Stretz was only one of numerous lover s the German academic was involved with in New York City. A married man, the 43-year-old had a wife and two daughters in Karlsruhe, Germany. Gebhardt met Stretz...

Max Sasanoff was caught up in a counterfeiting ring that operated from New York City's Putnam Building in 1922. After being arrested with multiple co-defendants he was confined to Atlanta Federal Prison. In his own words Max got into trouble when he used his artistic ability to create designs...

Principal Keeper George Adam Durnford was murdered during a prison riot at Auburn State Prison in Upstate New York in December 1929. Beginning in February 1930 convict Max Becker was tried for Durnford's slaying. Becker was a habitual criminal who came to Auburn following a stint in Elmira Reformatory....

Nurse Robina Lyttle was murdered and dismembered by her lover, Patrick McClafferty, in the basement of an apartment they shared in Flushing, Queens, New York City. The Irish Catholic woman met the Scottish Protestant man in February 1926. McClafferty, a janitor's helper, was encouraged to immigrate...

Henry Orne Rider was a painter from Salem, Massachusetts who made a name for himself as a landscape artist. His work is available from galleries and is avidly auctioned on ebay today. Among his most recurring subjects is the Charles River in Boston. Rider maintained an art/photography studio in Auburndale,...

The murders of Broadway celebrities Thula Louise Lawson and Dorothy Keenan, in 1923 and 1924, occurred in the Times Square/Theater District of Manhattan, New York. Lawson and Keenan were both associated with mobsters in their social lives, especially in the clubs they frequented in Manhattan. Lawson...

Suicide Pacts involve two or more persons who agree to commit suicide. The individuals do not necessarily have to be in the presence of one another. Instead the pact may specify attempting to kill oneself alone but at the same time as someone else. I have found through research that its sometimes...

Corvette is the most coveted and longest enduring American sports car. The General Motors car, introduced in 1953, has a worldwide following and has appeared internationally in countless auto shows. My e-book looks at some of the ingenious designs such as the XP-700. This futuristic car, conceived...

Two highly publicized sports scandals developed in New York City in the years 1945-1946. Occurring almost two years apart one of the incidents involved pro sports and the other was amateur related. At Brooklyn College five prominent players were offered money to throw a game against Akron University...