Title: Kill Petrosino!
First published: 1975
Description: It is the turn of the century. Lieutenant Joe Petrosino of the New York Police Department is a man with an obsession. Believing that there is a secret society controlling organised crime in America, he aims to expose the Mafia. With disbelieving superiors, he alone must face the feared Don Vito Cascio Ferro. Would-be informers are too scared to talk, but Petrosino gets his first lead with the discovery of a brutally murdered body in a New York alley.
Subjects: Fiction, Murder, Italy, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, biographical
Places: Palermo (Italy)
People: Joe Petrosino (1860-1909)
LC classification: PZ4.N79 Ki, PR6064.O413 Ki