Product Description

It remains one of the most enduring mysteries in gangland lore: in 1941, while Abe Reles and three other key informants were under round-the-clock NYPD protection, the ruthless and powerful thug took a deadly plunge from the window of a Coney Island hotel. The first criminal of his stature to break the underworld s code of silence, he had begun singing for the courts - giving devastating testimony that implicated former cronies - with more to come. With cops around him day and night, how could Abe have gone out the window? Did he try to escape? Did a hit man break in? Or did someone in the squealer s suite murder him? Here s the gripping story, packed with political machinations, legal sleight-of-hand, mob violence - and, finally, a proposed answer to the question: How did Abe Reles really die?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #305289 in Books
• Published on: 2009-06-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 240 pages

About the Author
Edmund Elmaleh was born in New York City and currently works for the Chicago Board of Trade. He is affiliated with the International Association of Crime Writers and the Organization of American Historians. This is his first book.