Ovid Demaris – författare

CHARLES “LUCKY” LUCIANO was an Organization Man with a difference. The organization he belonged to was The Mafia—a natural setup for a vicious thug with unlimited ambition and a heart of ice. Murder by murder, rape by rape, he established the biggest chair of brothels ever seen in New York. Everything—everyone—he touched turned rotten. He knew he had it made when he had more cops on his payroll prostitutes. Pal of Al Capone, Frank Costello Buggsy Siegel, Albert Anastasia, Lucky became the absolute ruler of a private empire built on vice, corruption and murder. This is the Lucky Luciano story—brutal, shocking, with nothing left out.

The American people were aroused to a white-hot anger. Clergymen of all faiths joined in prayer. Messages of sympathy came in from presidents, prime ministers, dictators, friends, crackpots, the morbid, the curious…THE LINDBERGH BABY HAD BEEN KIDNAPED!State, city and federal law enforcement groups vied with each other for publicity. Detectives, nationally known gangsters and charlatans offered their services as go-betweens. Reporters from all over the world descended on the town of Hopewell, N.J. like a swarm of locusts.On this wild note of hysteria began the search for the baby and his kidnaper—the greatest manhunt of the century, the most vicious case in the annals of crime.

RICH MAN, CON MAN, ASSASSIN, THIEF…THEY PLAYED THE OLDEST—AND DEADLIEST—OF GAMESThey came at their victims from all sides.Bastiano—the feeble-minded monster whose brain knew nothing but the art of assault and mayhem...Angelo—who understood what a bottle of acid could do to a pretty face when it got in his way...Lola—who knew enough to blow the whole dirty operation to kingdom come...Gracio—who hadn’t personally killed anyone in more than four years...These were the extortioners—experts in arson, intimidation, and murder.

Lieutenant Sam Johnson sat listening intently as the police psychologist spoke. “I’m afraid we’re dealing with another sex crime. There’s no question about it—think of how the bodies were mutilated. Also this killer will strike without reason or motive, and he will strike again and again until his morbid sexual desires are satisfied.”Lieutenant Johnson, the most experienced detective on the force, leaned forward. “And I’ll tell you something, Doctor,” he said. “We know this is man is big and powerful. We know he’s an expert with the knife. But that’s all we know.”A madman on the loose in THE SLASHER