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01674aam a2200313 i 4500 001 94FE16CC383D11EFA74ADF9234ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240702013519 008 240603t20242024cau b 000 0 eng 010 $a 2023052627 020 $a 1640096000 020 $a 9781640096004 040 $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a HV6529 $b .P65 2024 082 00 $a 364.152/30973 $2 23/eng/20240112 100 1 $a Polchin, James, $e author. 245 10 $a Shadow men : $b the tangled story of murder, media, and privilege that scandalized jazz age America / $c James Polchin. 250 $a First Counterpoint edition. 264 1 $a Berkeley, California : $b Counterpoint, $c 2024. 300 $a 354 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-354). 520 $a "On the morning of May 16, 1922, a young man's body was found on a desolate road in Westchester County. The victim was penniless ex-sailor Clarence Peters. Walter Ward, the handsome scion of the family that owned the largest chain of bread factories in the country, confessed to the crime as an act of self-defense against a violent gang of "shadow men," blackmailers who extorted their victims' moral weaknesses. From the start, one question defined the investigation: What scandalous secret could lead Ward to murder?"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Murder $z United States. 650 0 $a Crime and the press $z United States. 655 7 $a True crime stories. $2 lcgft. 941 $a 1 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20240702031823.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=94FE16CC383D11EFA74ADF9234ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search