Satan's Circus: Murder, Vice, Police Corruption, and New York's Trial of the Century (Abridged)

Nearly five million men and women have served the United States as police officers. Only one has been executed for murder.

They called it Satan's Circus-a square mile of Midtown Manhattan where vice ruled, sin flourished, and depravity danced in every doorway. At the turn of the twentieth century, murder was so common in the vice district that few people were surprised when the loudmouthed owner of a shabby casino was gunned down on the steps of its best hotel. But when, two weeks later, an...