Wicked Baltimore charm city sin and scandal
(2011)
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : The History Press : Made available through hoopla, 2011
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781614232698 (electronic bk.) MWT11507325, 1614232695 (electronic bk.) 11507325
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
As home to Edgar Allan Poe's body, the acerbic wit of H.L. Mencken and Fells Point's nest of pirates, Baltimore revels in the deliciously dark side of its history. From the incensed citizens of 1808 who torched a cargo of Geneva gin on Hampstead Hill to the Gilded Age socialite who allegedly poisoned four family members, the city's early history is littered with tales of raucous violence and sordid misdeeds. Local author Lauren R. Silberman leads readers through the horrors of slave pens, the chaos of the Pratt Street Riots and the backroom speakeasies of Prohibition to reveal the sinister and scintillating face of Charm City
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