Terror in the city of champions : murder, baseball, and the secret society that shocked Depression-era Detroit
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- ISBN: 9781493015702
- ISBN: 1493015702
- ISBN: 9781493018185
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xiii, 327 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm - Publisher: Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, [2016]
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-314) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Something Afoot, 1933-1934 -- Grand Plans, 1935 -- Joy and Terror, 1936. |
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Genre: | True crime stories. |
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Terror in the City of Champions : Murder, Baseball, and the Secret Society That Shocked Depression-Era Detroit
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Table of Contents
Terror in the City of Champions : Murder, Baseball, and the Secret Society That Shocked Depression-Era Detroit
Section | Section Description | Page Number |
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Prologue | p. xi | |
Part I | Something Afoot, 1933-1934 | |
Mickey and Dayton | p. 3 | |
A Friend Disappears | p. 15 | |
Spring in Lakeland | p. 16 | |
Major-General Bert | p. 22 | |
A Future Together | p. 30 | |
The Bee Is Buzzing | p. 32 | |
Neither Threats Nor Bribes | p. 36 | |
It Hurt for Days | p. 43 | |
Tie Little Stone Chapel | p. 52 | |
The Superstitious Schoolboy and His Gal | p. 60 | |
Happy Rosh Hashanah, Hank | p. 69 | |
Oh, Those Dean Boys | p. 77 | |
The Attorney down the Street | p. 87 | |
Part II | Grand Plans, 1935 | |
A New Year | p. 101 | |
Mr. Hoover, Investigate | p. 103 | |
Harry's Caravan | p. 113 | |
The Radio Priest | p. 121 | |
The Killing of Silas Coleman | p. 128 | |
Worries | p. 135 | |
Unwanted Attention | p. 145 | |
Zero Hour | p. 153 | |
Louis vs. Baer | p. 159 | |
World Champions | p. 165 | |
Amid the Joy, Punishment | p. 178 | |
The Pastor Who Said No | p. 182 | |
Uncle Frank | p. 189 | |
Come to Detroit, Lindbergh | p. 192 | |
Part III | Joy and Terror, 1936 | |
Case Closed | p. 203 | |
City of Champions | p. 214 | |
Rumors | p. 222 | |
Poole and Pidcock | p. 230 | |
Secrets | p. 236 | |
Black Legion Hysteria | p. 244 | |
Frenzied Nerves | p. 255 | |
Dayton Dean and the Negro Reporter | p. 257 | |
The Captain | p. 260 | |
Wyoming | p. 267 | |
The Cover-Up | p. 270 | |
Epilogue | p. 277 | |
Acknowledgments | p. 283 | |
Notes | p. 285 | |
Bibliography | p. 309 | |
Index | p. 315 | |
About the Author | p. 329 |