Acknowledgments
Introduction
Dramatis Personae
1 Murder at Ground Zero
2 The Bedford Avenue Gang
3 Florence Burns and Walter Brooks
4 Walter Brooks’s Last Week
5 Arrest
6 Florence and the Tombs Angel
7 The Unwritten Law
8 Florence in Jail and a City Obsessed
9 The Court of Special Sessions
10 The Verdict and an Intermission
11 The Inquest
12 Florence’s New Life
13 The Badger Game
14 Arrest, Trial, and the Law of Unintended Consequences
15 Lessons Not Learned
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index