San Francisco Babylon
By: by John Carpenter.
Publisher: Collectors Publications
Published: 1967
Place of publication: Covina, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: San Francisco (Calif.) -- History; San Francisco (Calif.) -- Social life and customs
Description: A history of vice, crime, and civic corruption in San Francisco. Cases examined include the murder of Jeanne Bonnet, Asbury Harpending and the Great Diamond Hoax, the William E. Sharon-Sarah Althea Hill case, Theodore Durrant and the Emmanuel Baptist Church murders, the Howard Street Gang, the Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle-Virginia Rappe case, and others.