Stephan Talty's The Black Hand tells the story of the Black Hand crime wave that gripped New York City in the early 1900s and the one policeman who took it on. He talks with NPR's Scott Simon. There ...
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The Society of the Banana might sound funny, but Ohioans weren’t laughing in the early 20th century. Columbus, Marion, and Bellefontaine – not exactly known as organized-crime hotbeds – were among the ...
THE BLACK HAND: THE EPIC WAR BETWEEN A BRILLIANT DETECTIVE AND THE DEADLIEST SECRET SOCIETY IN AMERICAN HISTORY By Stephan Talty Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $28, 248 pages My mother was Italian and I ...
Joseph Petrosino (far right) leads a Black Hand suspect to court. From The Black Hand, by Stephan Talty. (Library of Congress photo) As the 19th century came to a close, New York became the largest ...
The pic will adapt the upcoming book by Stephan Talty that follows a detective chasing down a criminal organization that leaves a symbol of a black hand at its crime scenes. By Rebecca Ford Leonardo ...
After a time it became just a matter of course for the more established southern Italian hoodlums to walk their newly arrived countrymen to a point near Police Headquarters and point out to them the ...