Written in the spirit of David von Drehle's "Triangle: The Fire that Changed America," Daniel James Brown's "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics," or Laura Hillenbrand's masterful "Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience an...
After the Pipitone murder of October 1919, he had not been heard from again. As the months passed without another ax attack, police began to suspect that their “fell demon from the hottest hell”—whoever he was—had simply left town, like so many other figures from the city’s underworld.That conclu...