02627cam a2200337 4500 523248337 TxAuBib 20210904120000.0 ||||||s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780544635357 0544635353 B01I4FPN7W Amazon dafbba43-7045-4f5f-9240-63b61655d38e OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2854448 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Talty, Stephan. The Black Hand [Libby] : The Epic War Between a Brilliant Detective and the Deadliest Secret Society in American History. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 11MB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 10MB. Biography & Autobiography. History. True Crime. Nonfiction. HTML:<p><b>This "g</b><b>ripping account" of the early 20th century organized crime ring chronicles "a lurid and little-known episode in American history" (<i>The Washington Post</i>).</b><br /> Beginning in the summer of 1903, an insidious crime wave stirred New York City, then the entire country, into panic. The children of Italian immigrants were being kidnapped and dozens of innocent victims gunned down. Bombs tore apart tenement buildings. Judges, senators, Rockefellers, and society matrons were threatened with gruesome deaths.</p> <p>The perpetrators' only calling card was the symbol of a black hand. Standing between the American public and the Society of the Black Hand was Joseph Petrosino. Dubbed "the Italian Sherlock Holmes," Petrosino was an ingenious detective and master of disguise. As the crimes grew ever more bizarre, Petrosino and his all-Italian police squad raced to capture members of the secret society before the nation's anti-immigrant tremors exploded into catastrophe.</p><i>The Black Hand</i> is a "taut, brisk, and very cinematic" true crime history of America at the dawn of the 20th century (<i>Newsday</i>). Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 13:21:58. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=dafbba43-7045-4f5f-9240-63b61655d38e&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=dafbba43-7045-4f5f-9240-63b61655d38e&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=dafbba43-7045-4f5f-9240-63b61655d38e&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)