List of Illustrations
Snapshots from the Lost World of Detectives
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The Rise of American Detectives
2. Italian Squads: The Cops Replace the Private Eyes
3. Murder in Hollywood and the Real Los Angeles Detective Bureau
4. The Hall-Mills Murders, the “World’s Greatest Detective,” and the Power of the Press
5. The Big Squads Roll: The Chicago Detective Bureau
6. Eliot Ness Pursues the Butcher, the Ups and Downs of Dr. Sam, and Lone Wolf Gonzaullas Stalks the Phantom
7. The Inspectors Bureau in the City by the Bay
8. New York Mysteries: The Rubel Robbery, the Disappearance of Judge Crater, and the Elusive Willie Sutton
9. The Real Crime of the Century: The Kidnapping and Murder of the Lindbergh Baby and the Rise of Director Hoover
10. America under Assault: Wall Street, a Day at the Fair, and the Murder of Carlo Tresca
11. The Black Dahlia Murder and Parker’s Police
12. The Brink’s Job and the St. Louis Blues
13. A Death in Dallas and the Disintegration of American Detective Bureaus
14. Twenty-First-Century Policing: Reorientation and Restoration
Notes
Bibliography
Index