Shadow men : the tangled story of murder, media, and privilege that scandalized jazz age America
(2024)
By:
Polchin, James
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
364.1523/POLCHIN,J
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, [2024]
©2024
©2024
EDITION
First Counterpoint edition
DESCRIPTION
354 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781640096004, 1640096000 :, 1640096000, 9781640096004
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"On the morning of May 16, 1922, a young man's body was found on a desolate road in Westchester County. The victim was penniless ex-sailor Clarence Peters. Walter Ward, the handsome scion of the family that owned the largest chain of bread factories in the country, confessed to the crime as an act of self-defense against a violent gang of "shadow men," blackmailers who extorted their victims' moral weaknesses. From the start, one question defined the investigation: What scandalous secret could lead Ward to murder?"--