Wicked Wilmington, Delaware

Take a journey through crime and vice in twentieth-century Wilmington, from a Tatnall Street bawdy house to the corporate boardrooms of the DuPont Company. Visit the old New Castle County Workhouse, scene of a break-in by a lynch mob and the daring escape of a notorious murderer. A police chief trying to keep his corrupt practices under wraps, agents raiding political headquarters and a detective murdered on the street were all part of city life in the early twentieth century. In later years, stories of a professional killer pleading self-defense, hiding his connections to a mobbed-up Teamsters boss, and runaway lovers caught up in an international extortion scheme show the city's darker side. Local historian Kevin McGonegal chronicles tales of Wilmington's infamous past.

Author: Kevin McGonegal
Publisher: History Press
Published: 07/26/2021
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 9.07h x 6.04w x 0.36d
ISBN13: 9781467148566
ISBN10: 1467148563
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | State & Local | Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD,
- True Crime | Historical
- History | United States | 20th Century