Robert Reynolds: 560 books

Lynne Baggett's name is obscure to all but the most avid Hollywood trivia buffs. She is most well known for her marriage to "On The Waterfront" producer, Sam Spiegel. Yet her life is important because of the questions it raises. Baggett was about thirty-five years old when she committed suicide...

Marilyn's period in New York City from 1954-1957 is interesting because it was a time of change and growth for the actress. She formed her own company, Marilyn Monroe Productions, to produce television, photographs, and films, for herself and other talented performers. Monroe stayed at the Waldorf...

Mobster Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno ascended quickly in the world of organized crime. As a Genovese family member he was involved in the policy racket, gambling and bookmaking. Based in East Harlem he was a close associate of such mobsters as Joe Adonis, Frankie Carbo, "Charley Bullets" Albero and...

In March 2018 I discovered that a Facebook friend of mine was a call girl at an exclusive agency in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Our talks began with a simple compliment that I made about one of her Facebook posts. She was wearing skinny jeans with holes that young women are very fond of. I sent her...

Charles Manson has been studied from many perspectives by authors, especially those that have looked closely at the mind control he has used to manipulate his followers. I have read with avid interest a number of these works over the years. My book begins with his birth certificate, which was difficult...

Karyn Kupcinet's murder is still unsolved in 2014. She was strangled in the early morning hours of November 28, 1963. The assassination of President John F. Kennedy occurred only days before. Karyn was a popular guest on numerous 1960s television shows. Her final appearance was on Perry Mason. My...

Dana was a native of Frankfurt (Oder) and a college student in East Berlin in the mid and late 1980s. She answered a letter that I wrote to Bulgaria Today magazine, which was located in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1984. Dana is somewhat younger than I am. She often wrote to me while traveling on a train from...

Nathan Kaplan, also known as Kid Dropper, was one of a number of powerful gangsters who were active in the pre-Prohibition era of New York City history. He was probably the most noteworthy racketeer at the outset of the 1920s. He acquired his nickname by running a scam that conned people into buying...

Tammaso Buscetta was part of a joint Italian-American effort to clean up an international drug ring that operated out of Sicily in the 1970s and 1980s. Earlier Buscetta was involved in tobacco smuggling. He turned against the Mafia because of seven murders they carried out against his relatives. In...

Stefano Magaddino dominated organized crime in Buffalo, New York during the 1960s. His criminal network extended into Ontario, Canada and the Ohio Valley region. My e-book is a close, short look at the power structure of Magaddino's criminal syndicate, with the names of lieutenants, family members,...

Linda Lovelace starred in the most lucrative adult film of all time, Deep Throat (1972). I have traced her maternal and paternal ancestors who came to the United States from Italy, Ireland and England. Linda died in 2002 in Colorado. Her family spread out from several locations in Maine, Massachusetts...

Johnny Torrio is sometimes seen as a footnote to Al Capone who is most often associated with the heyday of Chicago criminal activity. Yet it was Torrio who moved from Italy to New York to Chicago who established the first empire in Chicago. At the time there were two rival gangs in the windy city,...

Aniello DellaCroce led an insurrection to wrest power away from Gambino crime family boss Carlo Gambino. The underboss was a protege of the late Mafia enforcer Albert Anastasia. DellaCroce was a prominent figure in mob history from the early 1970s until his death from cancer in 1985. He was a fierce...

Counterfeiters operated in the early years of the 20th Century in New York's Lower East Side. Perhaps the best known of these was the Giuseppe Morello gang which was based on Prince Street in Manhattan. In April 1903 a Buffalo resident named Benedetto Madonia was found stuffed in a barrel on...