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Boston Organized Crime (Images of America)

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Boston has had its share of bookies and loan sharks, gangsters and wiseguys, hoodlums and hit men. From the Great Brink’s Robbery, which was once hailed because the crime of the century; to the long-forgotten Cotton Club in Roxbury, where the legendary nightlife kingpin Charlie “King” Solomon was once gunned down; to the infamous Blackfriars Massacre, a brutal gangland slaying that left five men dead, slumped over a backgammon game in a cramped basement workplace―all of those dark moments in time are part of Boston’s history that may be rarely spoken about. Boston Organized Crime explores the region’s shadier side and takes a closer take a look at the mobsters and racketeers who once operated within the Greater Boston area. Drawing upon an eclectic selection of crime scene photographs, mug shots, and police documents, creator Emily Sweeney takes readers on an eye-opening journey through Boston’s underworld, from the bootlegging days of Prohibition to the bloody gangland wars of the 1960s.

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