After midnight, Thelma Lorber enters her brother Abie's hangout under the Williamsburg Bridge, finding Jewish mobster Louis 'Pretty' Amberg in a puddle of blood on the kitchen floor. She could flee. Instead, in the dark hours of that October 1935 night before the dawn of Murder Inc., she remains bes
Bittersweet Brooklyn: A Novel
β Scribed by Adams, Thelma
- Book ID
- 110352433
- Publisher
- Lake Union Publishing
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 293 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781503904606
- ASIN
- B07BDGQ2P5
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