Jr Reynolds: 516 books

Brigitte Helm was a versatile German actress of the Weimar Era. She is remembered primarily for her dual role as the benevolent Maria and the evil Machine Man in Fritz Lang's Metropolis, a German film made by UFA in 1925 and 1926. She was remembered by Lang for her superb depiction of the blind...

Marian Nixon was originally from Superior, Wisconsin. She moved to Minneapolis after high school, training as a dancer and later entering vaudeville. She liked vaudeville, the stage, and dancing, but she opted to take a chance on becoming a motion picture actress. It was in 1918 that Nixon left a...

Greta Nissen was a lovely Norwegian beauty with fair skin and enchanting blue eyes. Her mother started her out early in dancing and ballet. When the girl was just six years of age she entered the Royal Opera of Copenhagen where she acquired additional training. In 1924 Greta came to the United States...

Yolande Pompey was a contender for the world light heavyweight in the 1950s. An orphan from Princes Town, Trinidad, Pompey's most prominent fight came against world champion Archie Moore in 1956. My e-book looks at how Yolande Pompey ascended the ranks of boxing in the West Indies. Soon he was...

Sam DeStefano was a Chicago mobster known for torturing his enemies, and those who owed him money. He became the first loan shark in the city's history. Crooked policemen would bring to criminals DeStefano's home and he would put them on a payment plan to pay off their debts. If they missed...

Little William "Billy" Ranieri was abducted one day in September 1928, while he was on his way from school to his Northwest Chicago home. The youth was later able to provide eyewitness testimony against his kidnappers. The Sicilian boy was held by several men who worked in association with a former...

Samuel "Sassy" Chioccoli was a multifaceted gangster who had direct ties to Murder, Inc., a Brooklyn based murder for hire organization. The crime outfit, which operated out of Brownsville, was headed by Louis "Lepke" Buchalter. By the 1930s it operated nationwide, the first of...

Soon after midnight on March 25, 1958 a Braniff Airways DC-7C plummeted from the sky. Disaster occurred soon after takeoff from Miami International Airport. A nearby nightwatchman saw the plane's impact and heard the screams of the fifteen survivors on board. The crash was the first ever at Miami...

Grace Roberts was a model and woman of important social circles in Philadelphia almost 100 years ago. Her image was frequently seen on hosiery products throughout America. Her horribly disfigured body was found by police on December 30th clad in her pajamas. She had been murdered inside her lavish...

Jo Collins is one of the most popular women to ever pose for Playboy Magazine. The editors of the publication discovered her while she was working as a page for a television show. The daughter of a wood cutter/apartment manager Collins was raised near Eugene, Oregon. Her fame has endured for decades...

A French built Caravelle III jet leased to Middle East Airlines of Beirut, Lebanon crashed on the edge of the Persian Gulf during a violent sandstorm on April 17, 1964. No survivors among a large group of Arabian American Oil Company personnel and their families were found. The wreckage of Flight...

Milwaukee Phil Alderisio was a Mafia crime boss in Chicago in the 1960s. My e-book looks at a bank fraud conspiracy involving him and three co-conspirators. During 1965 the criminal group stole approximately $89,000 from a bank in suburban Chicago. One of the ring leaders of the theft was a former...

Four young women were brutally murdered in the Washington D.C. area between 1929 and 1935. Two of the women were strangled, one was strangled and beaten and another was shot with a .25 caliber pistol. None of the murders was successfully solved. My e-book focuses on the details of each crime, including...

Two alternative treatments for measles epidemics were used beginning in 1929. Amidopyrine was first employed by a Chicago physician who later became known for a breakthrough treatment of meningococcal meningitis. He began using amidopyrine by 1929. Gamma globulin was made available for use to the...