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PADemD

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12. The Black Hand by Stephan Talty

Reply to happybird (Original post)

Sun Apr 28, 2019, 06:40 PM

Apr 2019

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. The perpetrators’ only calling card: the symbol of a black hand.

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Hi, I'm looking for non-fiction recs of a specific type [View all] happybird Apr 2019 OP

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