Take a journey through crime and vice in twentieth-century Wilmington, from a Tatnall Street bawdy house to the corporate boardrooms of the DuPont Company.

Visit the old New Castle County Workhouse, scene of a break-in by a lynch mob and the daring escape of a notorious murderer. A police chief trying to keep his corrupt practices under wraps, agents raiding political headquarters and a detective murdered on the street were all part of city life in the early twentieth century. In later years, stories of a professional killer pleading self-defense, hiding his connections to a mobbed-up Teamsters boss, and runaway lovers caught up in an international extortion scheme show the city's darker side.

Local historian Kevin McGonegal chronicles tales of Wilmington's infamous past.

Author: Kevin McGonegal
Publisher: The History Press
Page Count: 160pp
Size: 6 x 9
Notes: paperback
Date of Publication: July 20, 2021
ISBN: 978-1467148566