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(London: Hamilton: July, 1963)
First Panther Edition. Arnold Rothstein was shot dead in a hotel on Fifth Avenue on
November 4th, 1928, but in the following 30yrs. nothing was established
which threw any light on the identity of his murderer. The obvious
reluctance of even the police or the DA's office to move in the matter
was a major scandal. After a prolonged outcry in the newspapers, the
police did at last charge a certain George McManus with the crime, but
the case they presented was so farcically weak that the Judge did not
call upon the defence. Yet probably dozens of people knew the truth
about the killing. One person certainly did - Rothstein himself: but
even he wouldn't talk, in the few hours of consciousness that remained
to him. Rothstein was neither a political boss nor a gangster, but was
one of the main links between these two spheres. He was a millionaire
several times over. He was one of the greatest gamblers in the world,
but he also had a lucid, orderly business sense, and "led crime into the
business era". A fascinatingly dreadful piece of social history. Far
more shocking than the stories of the more notorious gangsters, it
reveals the widespread corruption within the New York political and
legal administration, the business world, and the labor unions. Very good with light wear and creasing on spinePostage in U.S is $3.00.International at cost.I will be happy to combine shipping costs for multiple items won.