The SS Portland was a solid and luxurious ship, and its loss in 1898 in a violent storm with some 200 people aboard was later remembered as “New England’s Titanic.” The Portland was
In 1878, two years after his death, the body of A.T. Stewart—one of the wealthiest men in America—was stolen from St. Mark’s Churchyard. The ghoulish crime, the bumbling chase for the culprits, the ye
Queen of Thieves is the gritty, fast-paced story of Fredericka ?Marm” Mandelbaum, a poor Jewish woman who rose to the top of her profession in organized crime during the Gilded Age in New York City. D
The cradle of New England's shipping doubled as its casket, earning the sailing route around Cape Cod the nickname of graveyard of the Atlantic. J. North Conway plunges into the character of Cape Cod,
A story bursting with murder, mayhem, and intrigue—the astonishing career of Thomas Byrnes, the 19th Century New York City detective who closed the city's most notorious murders and robberie
King of Heists is a spellbinding and unprecedented account of the greatest bank robbery in American history, which took place on October 27, 1878, when thieves broke into the Manhattan Savings Institu
From the author of King of Heists and The Big Policeman, comes the third book of history and crime in Gilded Age New York City--this time focused on the sensational grave robbery, ransom, and return o
New England is a rocky, rugged region. Its towns are marked by stone walls and its cities anchored by native granite and marble buildings. Historically significant boulders, many with Native American
