An edition of Wicked Philadelphia (2010)

Wicked Philadelphia

sin in the city of brotherly love

Wicked Philadelphia
Thomas H. Keels, Thomas H. Kee ...
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January 10, 2011 | History
An edition of Wicked Philadelphia (2010)

Wicked Philadelphia

sin in the city of brotherly love

Prim and proper Philadelphia has been rocked by the clash between excessive vice and social virtue since its citizens burned the city's biggest brothel in 1800. With tales of grave robbers in South Philadelphia and and harlots in Franklin Square, Wicked Philadelphia; reveals the shocking underbelly of the City of Brotherly Love. In one notorious scam, a washerwoman masqueraded as the fictional Spanish countess Anita de Bettencourt for two decades, bilking millions from victims and even fooling the government of Spain. From the 1843 media frenzy that ensued after an aristocrat abducted a young girl to a churchyard transformed into a brothel (complete with a carousel), local author Thomas H. Keels unearths Philadelphia's most scintillating scandals and corrupt characters in his rollicking history.

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History Press
Language
English

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Table of Contents

Introduction
Oh! it's a lovely war! : the Mischianza, 1778
Brotherly love and sisterly affection : the rise of the red light districts, ca. 1820
The victorians called it "seduction" : the Heberton-Mercer murder case, 1843
"Is there no law to hang them?" : body snatching at Lebanon cemetery, 1882
The best little whorehouse in Philly : James R. Applegate's flying circus, 1890
My mother, the "countess" : the Anita de Bettencourt fraud, 1892
The Frayed Fabric of our lives : the storey Cotton Con, 1905
The sugar daddy and the broadway butterfly : the Dot King murder, 1923
The Sesqui sinks : the World's Fair Fiasco, 1926
What lies beneath : the Lafayette cemetery scandal, 1946
Good night, sweet prince : John Barrymore comes home, 1980.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
Charleston, SC

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
974.8/11
Library of Congress
F158.36 .K44 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24463173M
ISBN 13
9781596297876
LCCN
2009050438
OCLC/WorldCat
477272140

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