SHADOW MEN: The Tangled Story of Murder, Media, and Privilege That Scandalized Jazz Age America
On the morning of May 16, 1922, a young man's body was found on a desolate road in Westchester County. The victim was penniless ex-sailor Clarence Peters. Walter Ward, the handsome scion of the Ward Baking Company, confessed to the crime as an act of self-defense against a gang of blackmailers who extorted their victims' moral weaknesses.
Format: Paperbound
Pages: 354
Publisher: Counterpoint
Publishing status: Current
ISBN: 9781640097902
Item #: 9477322