Lucky Luciano
The Rise and Fall of a Mob Boss
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About the Book
Charley “Lucky” Luciano was instrumental to the development of the American Mafia and supervised the attempt to dominate prostitution in New York City. Not surprisingly, he has been the subject of numerous biographies, exposés, and various works of urban folklore since his death in 1962. This book takes scholarship on Luciano to a new level, using fresh research on the investigation, arrest, and conviction of Lucky Luciano to delve deep into the sexual and criminal underworld of New York City. Topics include the complex structure of the New York City bordellos and the takeover that resulted in Luciano’s 1936 arrest; his considerable role in the expansion of the international heroin trade; and the shocking attempt to sexually frame a member of prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey’s staff in a desperate bid to overturn Luciano’s conviction.
About the Author(s)
Bibliographic Details
William Donati
Format: softcover (6 x 9)
Pages: 303
Bibliographic Info: 20 photos, notes, bibliography, index
Copyright Date: 2010
pISBN: 978-0-7864-4666-7
eISBN: 978-0-7864-9343-2
Imprint: McFarland
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Preface 1
Introduction: Charley Lucky 5
1. City of Vice 9
2. Rise to Power 19
3. Love’s Illusion 36
4. Sex Underworld 47
5. The Takeover 63
6. Rotten to the Core 87
7. Soulless Creatures 98
8. Lamster 113
9. The Big Pinch 125
10. The Trial 147
11. The Verdict 179
12. Betrayal 206
13. Poisonously False 217
14. No. 92168 230
15. Cuba 243
16. The Final Years 255
Notes 273
Bibliography 281
Index 283
Book Reviews & Awards
“those interested in taking a closer look at New York’s heyday as ‘Sin City’ will certainly get their fix in this book”—Epoch Times.
