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The snatch racket : the kidnapping epidemic that terrorized 1930s America /

""The Snatch Racket" will take the reader behind the scenes of gripping kidnapping crimes that terrified the American public in the 1930s"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cox, Carolyn, 1949- (Autor)
Formato: eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Lincoln, Nebraska] : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2021]
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Prologue
  • Part 1
  • 1. The Good Samaritans
  • 2. "This . . . Is Not Manchuria or China or Russia"
  • Part 2
  • 3. The Snatch of the Eaglet
  • 4. The Colonel's Mission
  • 5. Lifting the Veil
  • 6. "Ay, Doctor"
  • 7. Competing Investigations
  • Part 3
  • 8. Call NAtional 8-7117
  • 9. Epidemic
  • 10. The Road to Paradise
  • 11. The Symbol of the Crusade
  • Part 4
  • 12. The All-American Boy
  • 13. Framing God's Bagman
  • 14. "Like a Damned Albatross around My Neck"
  • 15. Fifty-Three Crates of Furniture
  • Part 5
  • 16. "Johnny, We've Got to Solve That Lindbergh Case"
  • 17. Dragnet
  • 18. Verdict
  • 19. Ocklawaha and Beyond
  • Epilogue
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index