Informer: The History of American Crime and Law Enforcement - August 2019: Who Was Salvatore Maranzano?

by Thomas Hunt, Lennert van`t Riet (Contributor), David Critchley (Contributor)

Everything we now know about the Prohibition Era architect of the American Mafia.

A long lost photograph of Salvatore Maranzano is discovered. Informer marks that occasion by dedicating an entire special issue to the one-time American Mafia "Boss of Bosses," tackling such questions as:

- What recent discoveries have been made?
- Why was Maranzano important in U.S. Mafia history?
- What did Maranzano certainly NOT look like?
- What was Maranzano up to in Dutchess County, New York?
- What was revealed about Maranzano by those who knew him?
- Where were the significant locations in his life and career?
- When did Maranzano-related events occur?
- How has he been depicted in motion pictures?
- Why did he hire Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll for the planned murder of "Lucky Luciano"?
- Did Maranzano become a U.S. citizen?
- What do we know about his time in Sicily?
- Was there really a post-Maranzano purge in the Mafia?

This is an Amazon Kindle e-book edition of the Informer journal, which is generally published as a magazine in print and electronic (PDF) formats. See mafiahistory.us/informer/ for more information. The Maranzano issue features twelve articles and columns, more than three dozen images and maps, as well as source citations.

291 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 12, 2019

About the author

I am a writer/researcher on the subject of organized crime (American Mafia). I most recently authored, Wrongly Executed? The Long-forgotten Context of Charles Sberna's 1939 Electrocution. I publish a quarterly true crime journal, Informer, and The American Mafia history website as well as a number of blogs. I co-wrote DiCarlo: Buffalo's First Family of Crime with Michael A. Tona and Deep Water: Joseph P. Macheca and the Birth of the American Mafia with Martha Macheca Sheldon. I contributed the American Mafia history sections to the Australian published, Mafia: The Necessary Reference to Organized Crime. I moderate Mafiahistory.us and Facebook discussion groups on Mafia history. Previously, I served as editor of several dmoz.org categories related to organized crime.

Married with three children and (too) numerous pets, I live and work in the Middlebury VT area.