| Record ID | marc_loc_updates/v37.i50.records.utf8:11606327:1630 |
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001 2009050438
003 DLC
005 20091209160901.0
008 091201s2010 scu b 000 0deng
010 $a 2009050438
020 $a9781596297876
040 $aDLC$cDLC
043 $an-us-pa
050 00 $aF158.36$b.K44 2009
082 00 $a974.8/11$222
100 1 $aKeels, Thomas H.
245 10 $aWicked Philadelphia :$bsin in the city of brotherly love /$cThomas H. Keels.
260 $aCharleston, SC :$bHistory Press,$c2010.
263 $a0912
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- Oh! it's a lovely war! : the Mischianza, 1778 -- Brotherly love and sisterly affection : the rise of the red light districts, ca. 1820 -- The victorians called it "seduction" : the Heberton-Mercer murder case, 1843 -- "Is there no law to hang them?" : body snatching at Lebanon cemetery, 1882 -- The best little whorehouse in Philly : James R. Applegate's flying circus, 1890 -- My mother, the "countess" : the Anita de Bettencourt fraud, 1892 -- The Frayed Fabric of our lives : the storey Cotton Con, 1905 -- The sugar daddy and the broadway butterfly : the Dot King murder, 1923 -- The Sesqui sinks : the World's Fair Fiasco, 1926 -- What lies beneath : the Lafayette cemetery scandal, 1946 -- Good night, sweet prince : John Barrymore comes home, 1980.
651 0 $aPhiladelphia (Pa.)$xHistory$vAnecdotes.
650 0 $aCrime$zPennsylvania$zPhiladelphia$vAnecdotes.
650 0 $aScandals$zPennsylvania$zPhiladelphia$vAnecdotes.
651 0 $aPhiladelphia (Pa.)$vBiography$vAnecdotes.