Carolyn Cox

The Snatch Racket

The Kidnapping Epidemic That Terrorized 1930s America

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Potomac Books Inc
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 196mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 712g
• ISBN-13: 9781640122031
• ISBN-10: 1640122036
• Artikelnr.: 60402763

Autorenporträt

Carolyn Cox is a retired partner of the law firm WilmerHale in Washington, DC, and a former adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center and American University Law School.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Prologue
Part 1. The Snatch Racket
1. The Good Samaritans
2. “This . . . Is Not Manchuria or China or Russia”
Part 2. The Crime of the Century
3. The Snatch of the Eaglet
4. The Colonel’s Mission
5. Lifting the Veil
6. “Ay, Doctor”
7. Competing Investigations
Part 3. To War against Kidnappers
8. Call NAtional 8-7117
9. Epidemic
10. The Road to Paradise
11. The Symbol of the Crusade
Part 4. At War
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. Turning the Tide
16. “Johnny, We’ve Got to Solve That Lindbergh Case”
17. Dragnet
18. Verdict
19. Ocklawaha and Beyond
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index