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Family secrets : the case that crippled the Chicago mob / Jeff Coen.
- Title
- Family secrets : the case that crippled the Chicago mob / Jeff Coen.
- Author
- Coen, Jeff.
- Publication
- Chicago, Ill. : Chicago Review Press, c2009.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | HV6452.I32 O874 2009 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- viii, 424 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.), map; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Painting a picture of the scenes both inside and outside the courtroom and re-creating events from court transcripts, police records, interviews, and notes taken day after day as the story unfolded in court in 2007, this title portrays some of the cold-blooded--and sometimes incompetent--killers and their crimes.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Case studies
- History
- Note
- Includes index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- A killing between friends -- The surprise letter -- "We gotta put somebody in a hole" -- Witness of a lifetime -- "Don't make any plans" -- United States vs. the Chicago outfit -- "You do it" -- This is not the Sopranos -- Testimony and tapes -- "This is a robbery" -- Alva and Emma -- "Strangers in the night" -- A son against his father -- Nick -- A killer tells his tale -- Explosion on the Tollway -- "If I give up by brothers" -- From Cicero to Las Vegas -- One and two -- The beak, the oven, and the dentist -- Joey -- Cross-examination -- Frank Sr. -- Twan -- Closing arguments -- End of a trial, end of an era -- Chronology.
- ISBN
- 9781556527814 (cloth)
- 1556527810 (cloth)
- LCCN
- ^^2008040135
- OCLC
- 254528390
- SCSB-12004675
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library