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...Manhattan factory. Last February he opened a second Manhattan showroom in the St. Moritz Hotel. Next fortnight he will open a $50,000 display at the Traymore in Atlantic City. Mont bars run all the way from $80 to $8,000. His best customers: top grade speakeasies, underworld tycoons...
Like all Museum robberies, this one was probably unprofitable. The ten paintings were practically unmarketable. No dealer or collector anywhere in the world would want them, except to look at in secret or unless some underworld tycoon was in the market to decorate his gangland mansion. The Brooklyn Museum had no insurance on the stolen pictures, and no intention of insuring the rest of its treasures. No public museums or libraries carry insurance because, 1) it would cost too much for public subscription. 2) it is not necessary. Nearly every important picture ever stolen from a museum has eventually been...
...slick little Crook-Defender Max D. Steuer, "greatest trial lawyer of our time." A brilliant, inconspicuous, hawk-faced Austrian Jew, Max Steuer has defended George Graham Rice, tireless stock swindler; Maurice Connolly, Queens sewer grafter. Harry Daugherty, boss of the Ohio Gang: Max ("Boo Boo") Hoff, Philadelphia underworld chief. He is the profession's ablest exponent of the old legal saw for a weak case: "Try the judge, try your opponent, try the police but don't try your client." Once when he had Anthony J. Drexel Biddle as a witness he was afraid that the fact that...
...HIDDEN DOOR-Frank L. Packard -Crime Club ($2). A detective fictionist searches the underworld to find who killed his gangland schoolmate...
Called the second-best pistol shot- and most vicious killer in Chicago's underworld, he had gone "gun crazy," began returning the fire of imaginary killers on empty streets...