about a private eye. period; and Sarah Lifton, another former editor of mine, who seems to make a habit out of being in my corner.
Thanks are also due to Donald E. Westlake and Mickey Spillane, for more reasons than just the moral support they lent during the writing of this novel.
Photos selected by the author for use in this edition are courtesy the Chicago Historical Society7 (Maxwell Street, General Dawes, Water Tower, Al Capone, Hooverville, and Barney Ross); other photos are courtesy the Miami Herald, the Chicago Tribune, and UPI; the Bayfront Park, 1983, photo was taken by Marice Cohn, staff photographer with the Miami Herald. Remaining photos have been selected from the personal collections of George Hagenauer, Barry Luebbert, and the author. Efforts to track the sources of certain photos have been unsuccessful; upon notification these sources will be listed in subsequent editions.
Literally hundreds of books and magazine and newspaper articles have been consulted in researching True Detective. I am particularly indebted to the anonymous authors of the Federal Writers Project volumes on the states of Florida, Georgia, Illinois and Iowa, all of which appeared in the late '30s: also helpful were several University of Chicago sociological studies, including From the Gold Coast to the
Slum (1929) and Chicago Police Problems (1932). A few other books deserve singling out: A Corner
of Chicago (1963). Robert Hardy Andrews; Al Capone (1930). Fred D. Pasley; The Bootleggers (1961), Kenneth Allsop; Boss Cermak of Chicago (1962), Alex Gottfried; Captive City (1969), Ovid Demaris; Chicago Confidential (1950), Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer; Dining in Chicago (1931), John Drury; The Dry and Lawless Years (1960), Judge John H. Lyle; Four Against the Mob (1961), Oscar Fraley; George Raft (1974), Lewis Yablonsky; The George Raft File (1973), James Robert Paris with Steven Whitney; Headquarters (1955), Quentin Reynolds; Maxwell Street (1977), Ira Berkow; Mayors, Madams, and Madmen (1979), Norman Mark; No Man Stands Alone (1957), Barney Ross and Martin Abramson; That Man Dawes (1930), Paul R Leach; The Twenty Incredible Years (1935), William H Stuart; The Underworld of American Politics (1932), Fletcher Dobbins; The Untouchables (1957), Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley; Where's the Rest of Me? (1965), Ronald Reagan and Richard G. Hubler; and Winchell (1971) : Bob Thomas.
When all the debts have been paid, or at least acknowledged, one remains: this book could not have been written without the constant help and support of my wife, partner, and toughest (and best) critic, Barbara Collins.
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