Finding Judge Crater - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Finding Judge Crater write by Stephen J. Riegel. This book was released on 2022-01-31. Finding Judge Crater available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On the night of August 6, 1930, Joseph Force Crater, a newly appointed judge and prominent figure in many circles of Manhattan, hailed a taxi in the heart of Broadway and vanished into thin air. Despite a decades-long international manhunt led by the New York Police Department’s esteemed Missing Persons Bureau, the reason for Crater’s disappearance remains a confounding mystery. In the early months of the investigation, evidence implicated and imperiled New York’s top officials, including then-Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mayor Jimmy Walker, as well as the city’s Tammany Hall political machine, lawyers and judges, and a theater mogul. Drawing on new sources, including NYPD case files and court records, and overlooked evidence discovered years later, Riegel pieces together the puzzle of what likely happened to Joseph Crater and why. To uncover the mystery, he delves into Crater’s ascension into the scintillating and corrupt world of Manhattan in the Roaring Twenties and Jazz Age. In turn, the story of the judge’s vanishing amid the Great Depression unfolds as a harbinger of the disappearance of his lost metropolis and its transformation into modern-day New York City.
At The Bar
At The Bar - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook At The Bar write by David Margolick. This book was released on 1995. At The Bar available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The lawyer's trade--from its noblest moments to its greatest blunders--is examined with rigor, insight, and wit by one of America's foremost commentators on the law, New York Times columnist David Margolick.
Crater's Edge
Crater's Edge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Crater's Edge write by Michal Giedroyc. This book was released on 2010-05-01. Crater's Edge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In September 1939, as a 10 year-old boy, Michal Giedroyc watched the Russian security police seize his home in Eastern Poland. His father, a senator and judge, was imprisoned while his mother, with Michal and his two sisters, were left on the streets of the local town to fend for themselves. Later they were transported in cattle trucks to the wastes of Soviet Siberia, with hundreds of thousands of other deportees. "Here, by the will of the rulers of the Soviet Empire, we were to toil and die." Eighteen months of deprivation and hunger on a collective farm brought them to the brink of extinction. Exhausted, half starved, and ill, Michal's mother and her children set off on a second grueling journey that would take them across Central Asia to Persia, the Middle East, and finally England. In one dramatic incident their survival hinged remarkably on the just two simple objects—a potato and a penknife.
Vanishing Point
Vanishing Point - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Vanishing Point write by Richard J. Tofel. This book was released on 2004. Vanishing Point available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Looks at the life and times of Judge Crater, a New York State Supreme Court justice who disappeared in 1930.
The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress
The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress write by Ariel Lawhon. This book was released on 2014-10-07. The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the New York Times bestselling author of I Was Anastasia and The Frozen River comes a “genuinely surprising whodunit” (USA Today) that tantalizingly reimagines a scandalous murder mystery that rocked the nation. One summer night in 1930, Judge Joseph Crater steps into a New York City cab and is never heard from again. Behind this great man are three women, each with her own tale to tell: Stella, his fashionable wife, the picture of propriety; Maria, their steadfast maid, indebted to the judge; and Ritzi, his showgirl mistress, willing to seize any chance to break out of the chorus line. As the twisted truth emerges, Ariel Lawhon’s wickedly entertaining debut mystery transports us into the smoky jazz clubs, the seedy backstage dressing rooms, and the shadowy streets beneath the Art Deco skyline. Don't miss Ariel Lawhon's new book, The Frozen River!
