The Lindbergh Kidnaping Case: The True Story of the Crime That Shocked the World

by Ovid Demaris

Overview

The American people were aroused to a white-hot anger. Clergymen of all faiths joined in prayer. Messages of sympathy came in from presidents, prime ministers, dictators, friends, crackpots, the morbid, the curious…
THE LINDBERGH BABY HAD BEEN KIDNAPED!
State, city and federal law enforcement groups vied with each other for publicity. Detectives, nationally known gangsters and charlatans offered their services as go-betweens. Reporters from all over the world descended on the town of Hopewell, N.J. like a swarm of locusts.
On this wild note of hysteria began the search for the baby and his kidnaper—the greatest manhunt of the century, the most vicious case in the annals of crime.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781787202085
Publisher:	Hauraki Publishing
Publication date:	10/27/2016
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	161
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Ovid Demaris (born Ovide E. Desmarais, 6 September 1919 - 12 March 1998 as) was an American author of books and detective stories. A former United Press correspondent and newspaper reporter, he wrote more than twenty books and hundreds of newspaper articles.
Born in Biddeford, Maine, Demaris obtained an A.B. degree in History and English from the College of Idaho and an M.S. degree in Journalism from Boston University.
During World War II, he served in the Air Force as a personnel officer. After the war he worked as a reporter on the Boston Daily Record, then as a Boston Bureau staff man for United Press, and finally became Ad Copy Chief of the Los Angeles Times.
Mr. Demaris is most noted for historical or biographical books about the Mafia and other gangland characters such as "Lucky Luciano". His books have been translated and published in 10 foreign countries.
He died in 1998 aged 78.

Born in Biddeford, Maine, Demaris obtained an A.B. degree in History and English from the College of Idaho and an M.S. degree in Journalism from Boston University.
During World War II, he served in the Air Force as a personnel officer. After the war he worked as a reporter on the Boston Daily Record, then as a Boston Bureau staff man for United Press, and finally became Ad Copy Chief of the Los Angeles Times.
Mr. Demaris is most noted for historical or biographical books about the Mafia and other gangland characters such as “Lucky Luciano”. His books have been translated and published in 10 foreign countries.
He died in 1998 aged 78.