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About this book
Detailing the salacious history of Baltimore and its denizens from the city's earliest history up to and through Prohibition.
With nicknames such as "Mob Town" and "Syphilis City," no one would deny that Baltimore has its dark side. Before shows such as "The Wire" and "Homicide: Life on the Streets" brought the city's crime rate to national attention, locals entertained themselves with rumors surrounding the mysterious death of writer Edgar Allan Poe and stories about Zelda Fitzgerald, wife of author F. Scott Fitzgerald, who spent time in a Baltimore area sanitarium in the 1930s.
Tourists make the Inner Harbor one of the most traveled areas in the country, but if they would venture a few streets north to The Block on Baltimore Street they would see an area once famous for its burlesque shows. It is only the locals who would know to continue north on St. Paul to the Owl Bar, a former speakeasy that still proudly displays some of its Prohibition era paraphernalia.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword, by Christopher Scharpf
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Banishing William Goddard
- Napoleonās Sister-in-Law: The International Marriage Scandal of Betsy Patterson Bonaparte
- Americaās Oldest Operating Penitentiary
- The Birth of Mobtown
- Nest of Pirates
- A Terrible Trade: The Slave Pens of Baltimore
- Would Poe Have Been Poe Without Baltimore?
- Plug Uglies, Blood Tubs and Rip Raps, Oh My!
- The Baltimore Plot: Baltimore and the Beginning of the Civil War
- āRevolt on the Railroadsā: The Great Strike of 1877
- Did She or Didnāt She? The Case of the āBaltimore Borgiaā
- Burking, Bodies and Baltimore
- Playing āWinderā: The Escape and Capture of Ike Winder
- The Sordid Findings Baltimoreās Vice Commission
- The Block
- The Battle over Liquid Bread: Baltimore and Prohibition
- Notes
- Bibliography
- About the Author