Crime Incorporated by Martin Mooney 1935 !st edition Organized Crime Expose'

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Whittlesey House, New York, 1935. Hardcover. Condition: Good First Edition.Stated 280 pages. Hardcover no dustjacket. A concise and analytical examination of organized crime. (Key Words: Crime, Mob, Investigative Reporting, Rackets," crime reporter (formerly of The American) trusted by the underworld and its rulers gives his warning of the stranglehold the racketeers have acquired since they have taken to Big Business methods. It reads like an incredible outline for the films, higher-ups whose fingers never get dirty and yet who gather in fantastic profits from their affiliations with pin ball games, "numbers", race tracks, trade in women, loans, night clubs, unions and industrial shakedowns, real estate, diamonds, stocks and bonds, gambling, foodstuffs, garages and automobiles, abortions, gun running and counterfeiting, narcotics."(Kirkus) Includes a reproduction of a signed letter from J. Edgar Hoover praising the author's efforts.