The Snatch Racket: The Kidnapping Epidemic That Terrorized 1930s America, Hardcover - Carolyn Cox

Although the 1932 kidnapping of aviator Charles Lindbergh's baby was a worldwide sensation, it was only one of an estimated three thousand ransom k...

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Publisher: Penguin Putnam IncAuthor(s): Tom SanctonNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 237 x 163 x 34Cover type: HardbackRedescop...

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In his first chronicled adventure, the NAMELESS DETECTIVE hires on to handle the ransom payoff in a kidnapping case. Financier Louis Martinetti doe...

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