Italian immigrants arriving in New York City in the early 1900s were terrorized with kidnappings, murder and extortion by a secret society known as "the Black Hand." And then Joe Petrosino took action ...

THE BLACK HAND: THE EPIC WAR BETWEEN A BRILLIANT DETECTIVE AND THE DEADLIEST SECRET SOCIETY IN AMERICAN HISTORY By Stephan Talty Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $28, 248 pages My mother was Italian and I ...

Black Hand continued to terrorize New York in the years after Petrosino’s death, until a reform-minded police commissioner named Arthur Woods signed on in 1914. Woods authorized a brutal (and possibly ...

Stephan Talty's The Black Hand tells the story of the Black Hand crime wave that gripped New York City in the early 1900s and the one policeman who took it on. He talks with NPR's Scott Simon. There ...

The Society of the Banana might sound funny, but Ohioans weren’t laughing in the early 20th century. Columbus, Marion, and Bellefontaine – not exactly known as organized-crime hotbeds – were among the ...

Talty (Black Irish) spins a gripping tale in this true crime account of one man’s crusade to combat organized crime in early-20th-century New York City. His hero is Joseph Petrosino, one of the first ...

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The pic will adapt the upcoming book by Stephan Talty that follows a detective chasing down a criminal organization that leaves a symbol of a black hand at its crime scenes. By Rebecca Ford Leonardo ...