Title The Black Hand : the epic war between a brilliant detective and the deadliest secret society in American history / Stephan Talty.

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Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2017]

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Description	xix, 298 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-280) and index.
Contents	Prologue: "a great and consuming terror" -- "This capital of half a world" -- Hunter of men -- "In mortal dread" -- The mysterious six -- A general rebellion -- Explosion -- Wave -- The General -- "The terror of hurtful people" -- "Once to be born, once to die" -- "War without quarter" -- Backlash -- A secret service -- The gentleman -- In Sicily -- Black horses -- Goatville -- A return.
Summary	Beginning in the summer of 1903 the children of Italian immigrants were kidnapped, and dozens of innocent victims were 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. The tabloid press heated ethnic tensions to the boiling point. Joseph Petrosino, a dogged and ingenious detective, and the all-Italian police squad he assembled, raced to capture members of the secret criminal society before the country's anti-immigrant tremors exploded into catastrophe.
Subject	Organized crime -- United States -- Case studies.
	Italians -- Crimes against -- United States -- Case studies.
	Italian Americans -- Crimes against -- Case studies.
	Extortion -- United States -- Case studies.
	Murder -- United States -- Case studies.
	Mafia -- United States -- Case studies.
	HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration.
	TRUE CRIME / Organized Crime.
	Italian Americans -- Case studies.
	Homicide -- United States -- Case studies.
	Italians -- United States -- Case studies.
	Extortion -- United States -- Case studies.
	Organized crime -- United States -- Case studies.
Genre/Form	True crime stories.
Other Form:	Online version: Talty, Stephan, author. Black Hand Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2017] 9780544635357 (DLC) 2017007333
ISBN	9780544633384 (hardcover)
	0544633385 (hardcover)

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