Title: San Francisco Babylon
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.
Subjects: History, Social life and customs, Manners and customs, Crime, Vice control, Corruption
Places: San Francisco (Calif.)