Robert Reynolds: 504 books

Emanuel "Mendy" Weiss was a henchman for Murder, Inc., a murder for hire organization that controlled the New York City garment industry in the 1930s. Weiss skipped bail and was apprehended by federal agents in Kansas City, Missouri. He was charged on a narcotics violation and also for the September...

Helen Jewett's murder was the first tabloid sensation. The lurid details of her 1836 hatchet murder were featured in the newspapers of New York City for weeks. The New York Herald of James Gordon Bennett was the most prominent newspaper to cover the story. My work looks at Dorcas Doyen's ancestry....

Belsen and Auschwitz concentration camps were notorious places of torture for both Jewish and Allied prisoners. My e-book considers the testimony of survivors. They graphically depict the atrocious scenes they witnessed and describe the daily lives they endured.After being transferred from Auschwitz...

Harry Fleischer was a Jewish mobster originally from Poland. He settled in Detroit, Michigan where he became a leader of the notorious Purple Gang. The criminal organization dominated Motor City vice beginning in the 1920s. Fleischer became a fugitive when he fled Michigan following an armed robbery...

The history of a railroad includes the personal histories of the individuals who worked for it. In 1880 the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad in Topeka, Kansas employed executives, clerks, yard superintendents, conductors, supervisors, etc. Most of the people who worked for the railroad came...

Joseph Feola was a prominent figure in the Westchester County, New York waste disposal industry. Beginning in March 1965 FBI surveillance revealed that this Gambino family soldier's life was endangered. Secret tapes disclose furtive conversations among DeCavalcante family members. These, sometimes...

Natale Evola became boss of the Bonanno crime family in 1970 and held this position until his death in August 1973. Evola had been a Genovese family operative in the late 1950s, attending the notorious Apalachin convention in upstate New York in November 1957. He was also a lynch pin of narcotics...

The Admiral Graf Spee was one of three pocket battleships built by Nazi Germany in the years before the outbreak of World War II. It came into Montevideo harbor in Uruguay seeking repairs in December 1939. The ship was assaulted by a trio of British cruisers and the Nazi government opted to scuttle...

Scarlet fever has afflicted mankind since the 1500s. In the United States it appeared in epidemic proportion in New England in the early 18th century. In Boston and New Hampshire whole families became sickened, and sometimes most of their members died. Scarlet fever affects the kidneys and ear membranes...

Giuseppe Masseria was a Mafia strongman in New York City, an associate of Chicago's famed gang chieftain, Al Capone. Masseria's April 1931 murder was an especially brutal one, but one that Masseria knew was likely in the offing. My book details the factions of the Italian Mafia in New York City in...

Wayne Lonergan was jailed for more than 20 years for the bludgeoning/strangling death of his socialite/heiress wife, Patricia Burton Lonergan. The 22-year-old beauty was murdered while he was in New York City on October 24, 1943. Lonergan joined the Royal Canadian Air Force following one of many arguments...

Patrice Lumumba was a fiery centrist whose goal was to unite the Congo's tribal factions into one governing body. My e-book looks at his rise to power beginning in 1951, his imprisonment for embezzlement, and his ambition for a unified African country. Lumumba can be described as non religious. His...

Frank the Dasher Abbandano was part of the enforcement team of a criminal organization called Murder Inc. Abbandano led an East New York gang as a youth and was sent to prison twice by his early twenties. Frank's specialty was killing with an ice pick and also a meat cleaver. He met Abe Kid Twist...

Tampa, Florida became a hotbed of gambling and mobster activity by the 1930s. In April 1938 nine of its city and Hillsborough County officials were indicted by a local grand jury. In 1949 Florida Governor Fuller Warren closed down gambling joints statewide about a month after he was elected. The Tampa...