The Hit List: A City-by-City-Ranking of North America's Top Murders of All Time

by Scott M. Burnstein

Overview

The Hit List: A city-by-city ranking of North America's top mob murders of all time is crime historian Scott M. Burnstein's new 29-section, fully illustrated ebook original. The first five subsections deal with the five leading New York mob families (the Gambinos, Bonannos, Lucheses, Genoveses and Colombos) and their most famous planned murders. The main part of the ebook focuses on the most notorious mob hits in U.S. cities ranging from Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, Detroit and St. Louis to Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Denver and Las Vegas.

The regions covered include the Northeast, the Midwest, the West Coast and the South. Murders committed by non-Italian ethnic organized groups include the top hits of the African-American, Irish-American and Jewish mobs. Burnstein's ebook concludes with the best-known Canadian murders, mob-related suicides and the murders of sports figures.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940151225212
Publisher:	Camino Books, Incorporated
Publication date:	06/24/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	826,722
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Scott M. Burnstein is an attorney, journalist and noted crime historian. He is the author of Motor City Mafia: A Century of Organized Crime in Detroit; Family Affair: Greed, Treachery and Betrayal in the Chicago Mafia; The Detroit True Crime Chronicles: Tales of Murder and Mayhem in the Motor City, and Mafia Prince.