Wicked Columbia
Subtitle: vice and villainy in the capital
By: Alexia Jones Helsley
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9781609498504
Subjects: Social conditions; Moral conditions; Vice; History; Corruption; Crime
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: Birth of a City; title: Coming of Age; title: Behind Closed Doors; title: Ladies of the Evening; title: War on Vice, Part I : WWI; title: Boys will be Boys; title: Death in the Street; title: New Century, Old Problems; title: "A Devil of a Place"; title: Hands in the Cookie Jar; title: War on Vice, Part II : WWII; title: Epilogue: "What's Past is Prologue"; title: Appendix A: Inhabitants, Richland Country Jail, 1880.