Forbidden Fruit: Sin City's Underworld and the Supper Club Inferno

The Beverly Hills Supper Club was Vegas before Vegas was cool. It was known as the "Showplace of the Nation" before it burned to the ground in 1977, killing at least 165 people-one of the worst fires in U.S. history. But few knew that the Beverly Hills had a violent past of deadly arson beginning in 1936, when it was taken over by the Cleveland mob that ran "Sin City" in Newport, Kentucky-an open city of prostitution, extortion, gambling and violence for decades, until new U.S. Attorney Gen...