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Könyv A Town Held Hostage Gareth Edgar

A Town Held Hostage

The Victims, Widows, and Witnesses of Batavia's Cold-Blooded Killings

Szerző: Gareth Edgar
Nyelv: Angol
Kötés: Puha kötésű
Kiadó: Independently published
Elérhetőség: Várható készletfeltöltés
Küldés 06. 09. 2026
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Small City. A Broken Peace. A Silence That Lasted Decades.Before 1936, Batavia, New York was an ordi...

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Szerző
Gareth Edgar
Nyelv
Angol
Kötés
Könyv - Puha kötésű
Kiadva
2026
oldal
76
EAN
9798171012243
Enbook ID
53734900
Kiadó
Independently published
Súly
116
Méretek
152 x 229 x 4

Teljes leírás

Small City. A Broken Peace. A Silence That Lasted Decades.

Before 1936, Batavia, New York was an ordinary place. A South Side of parish churches and small shops. Families building lives a generation removed from the boat that brought them. Then, in the space of fourteen months, four men connected to one Batavia family were shot, bombed, or buried. No one was ever convicted. The town did not talk about it, not really, for almost ninety years.
A Town Held Hostage is not a mob procedural. It does not chase the men who pulled the triggers or trace the criminal network behind them. It follows the people who were left standing: the widows whose names the record did not think to keep, the neighbors who heard the news shop to shop and porch to porch, the children who grew up walking past a poolroom everyone eyed differently, and a town that kept living, quietly, in the middle of it all.
This book is built from what can be documented and honest about what cannot. It draws on Batavia's own city archives, contemporary newspaper reporting, homicide records, and published research into the organized crime network whose reach extended into these streets. Where the record is silent, on a name, a date, a private grief, this book says so directly, rather than filling the gap with invention.
This is not a story about who did it. It is a story about what four unsolved killings cost the people who had to keep living there.