Wicked Philadelphia
Subtitle: sin in the city of brotherly love
By: Thomas H. Keels.
Publisher: History Press; The History Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9781596297876
Subjects: Crime -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Anecdotes; Scandals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Anecdotes; Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- Anecdotes; Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Biography -- Anecdotes
Genres: Anecdotes; Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Oh! it's a lovely war! : the Mischianza, 1778; title: Brotherly love and sisterly affection : the rise of the red light districts, ca. 1820; title: The victorians called it "seduction" : the Heberton-Mercer murder case, 1843; title: "Is there no law to hang them?" : body snatching at Lebanon cemetery, 1882; title: The best little whorehouse in Philly : James R. Applegate's flying circus, 1890; title: My mother, the "countess" : the Anita de Bettencourt fraud, 1892; title: The Frayed Fabric of our lives : the storey Cotton Con, 1905; title: The sugar daddy and the broadway butterfly : the Dot King murder, 1923; title: The Sesqui sinks : the World's Fair Fiasco, 1926; title: What lies beneath : the Lafayette cemetery scandal, 1946; title: Good night, sweet prince : John Barrymore comes home, 1980.