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Coming This Spring

Ashes of My Youth: A Tale of New York & The Wall Street Bombing By the author of The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett, nominated for the Mystery Writers of America’s Edgar Award and the Anthony Award. Now in the Kindle Store: https://www.amazon.com/ASHES-MY-YOUTH-Street-Bombing-ebook/dp/B0949MDSDF/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Ashes+of+my+youth&qid=1620397501&s=digital-text&sr=1-1 Escaping from the house of his Hoboken ward boss father, young Johnny Moran entersContinue reading “Coming This Spring”

ASHES OF MY YOUTH: A Tale of New York & The Wall Street Bombing

Coming This Spring from Spy-Arts Excerpt: Manhattan, 1935 We had switched from beer to a pair of hot rums dubbing around in a reporters’ bar across from the women’s prison downtown. Outside it was storming in late October style, the first chilly rain that gnaws like winter, and from our polished stools we watched theContinue reading “ASHES OF MY YOUTH: A Tale of New York & The Wall Street Bombing”

Confessions of the Outlaw

Coffeyville, Kansas 1892 Trains brought people from nearby towns, who sliced keepsakes from his dead brothers’ clothes where they lay; clipped hair from the manes and tails of their fallen horses and cut the strings off their saddles. In the street, he was nearly picked over for souvenirs himself before he was carried upstairs, whereContinue reading “Confessions of the Outlaw”