Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder and the Battle for New Orleans by Gary Krist
Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder and the Battle for New Orleans
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Gary Krist
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Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder and the Battle for New Orleans

Gary Krist

416 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction crime history true crime challenging informative medium-paced
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Empire of Sin is a vibrant account of New Orleans in the early 1920s, a time when commercialised vice, jazz culture and endemic crime formed the background for a civil war that lasted for thirty years. At its centre the city's vice lord fought des...

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