The Detroit True Crime Chronicles, Scott M. Burnstein
The Detroit True Crime Chronicles, Scott M. Burnstein
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The Detroit True Crime Chronicles
Tales of Murder & Mayhem in the Motor City

Author: Scott M. Burnstein

Narrator: Charles Constant

Unabridged: 10 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/09/2021

Synopsis

The Detroit True Crime Chronicles sets forth the rich history of criminal activity in the Motor City. Using information from declassified federal documents and many firsthand accounts, the book focuses on the city's local Mafia, key mobsters, drug kingpins, serial killers, and unsolved crimes.

Included in this comprehensive account of criminal life in Michigan's great border city are the stories of "Ernie the Greek" Kanakis, Henry "Blaze" Marzette, Eddie Jackson, "Baby Ray" Peoples, Demetrius Holloway, Butch Jones, Leroy Buttrum, "Frank Nitti" Usher, "Maserati Rick" Carter, "Rocking Reggie" Brown, "Wonderful Wayne" Davis, Young Boys Inc. (YBI), Murder Row, Best Friends, Pony Down, John Wolfenbarger, "Billy Wadd" Smith, Harry "Taco" Bowman, "Tony Jack" Giacalone, "Frankie the Bomb" Bommarito, "Singing Sam" Cattalanotte, the Purple Gang and the Burnstein Brothers, "Black Bill" Tocco, Joseph "Legs" Laman, Christopher Busch, the Chaldean Mafia, the Chambers brothers, "Joe Uno" and "Tony Z" Zerilli, "Black Jack" Tocco, "Papa John" Priziola, "Machine Gun Pete" Corrado, "Jimmy Q" Quasarano, "Gentleman John" Claxton, Carmine "The Doctor" Lombardozi, Angelo "The Chairman" Meli, "Frankie Three Fingers" Coppola, "Cockeyed Joe" Catalanotte, the Badalamenti Group, Benedetto Evangelista, Bobby "The Animal" La Puma, and, of course, Jimmy Hoffa.

About Scott M. Burnstein

Scott M. Burnstein is an attorney, journalist, and organized crime historian. He is the author of Motor City Mafia: A Century of Organized Crime in Detroit and Family Affair: Greed, Treachery, and Betrayal in the Chicago Mafia. He is the coauthor with Phil Leonetti of Mafia Prince: Inside America's Most Violent Mafia Family and the Bloody Fall of La Cosa Nostra.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Chris

A history of the the most infamous and grisly tales of crime in the long and illustrious history of Detroit. From the Purple Gang to present day, many of the Motor City's notorious personalities are featured. Exhaustively researched, at times, keeping track of all the players mentioned can be a chor......more

Goodreads review by Mark

This is a massive inside catalog of the crimes, mainly of mafia and gangsters of the Motor City. I was hoping for more of a sociological aspect as it seemed to have led in the introduction but I am happy with what I listened to. The many names and details of this mafia guy did x to this guy here and......more

Goodreads review by Sabne

Dynamic, easy to follow, fast moving, and interesting. This read with the pace of a fiction beach read rather than what it is, nonfiction. I would have preferred a more linear organization to the book, however, instead of jumping back and forth through time.......more

Goodreads review by Amy

Loved this style of writing and how all of the true crime read as easily as a fiction novel. I would have preferred the stories were told in chronological order, but that is probably just my own Type A self kicking in.......more

Goodreads review by Michael

What a great book! Detroit has such an interesting underground history that is so often brushed over by New York and Chicago. While the story telling jumps around it is a must read......more

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