The Dark Side of the Great Lakes

Almost everyone likes reading about the seamy side of life, the stuff the old and tattered Police Gazettes only hinted at.  This volume tells the tales folks really wanted to know about, the stuff your maiden aunt read after she turned down the parlor lights and poured a good measure of whisky into her special tea cup.

Chicago was once called the "only completely corrupt city in America."  It isn't cerain the evaluation was ever really disputed.  The sordid details of how the windy city received such a questionable accolade are covered in risque detail.

Read about dastardly captains deliberately sinking their ships and murdering the crews, bootlegges paying off the squeaky clean forces of law and order to let their whisy go unnoted, and "loose women" from the red light districts plying their trade.