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Four letters from Congressman Oldfield, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., to Mrs. T.C. Plant with the American Red Cross in Searcy, Ark.
The “fascinating…great-grandson’s account” (The Wall Street Journal) of the US postal inspector who brought to justice the deadly Black Hand is “unputdownable” (Library Journal, starred review). Before the emergence of prohibition-era gangsters like Al Capone and Lucky Luciano, there was the Black Hand: an early twentieth-century Sicilian-American crime ring that preyed on immigrants from the old country. In those days, the FBI was in its infancy, and local law enforcement were clueless against the dangers. Terrorized victims rarely spoke out, and the criminals ruled with terror—until Inspector Frank Oldfield came along. In 1899, Oldfield became America’s 156th Post Office In...
Index of pedigrees and alliances many a noble lord, paramount in his own country, would be astonished to find that his less distinguished neighbour was of a nobility as ancient as his own.