The Starker: Big Jack Zelig, the Becker-Rosenthal Case, and the Advent of the Jewish Gangster Ramsey & Todd the characters solve not only

the characters solve not only the "whodunit"-type mysteries

Making rewards and reprimands real

and motivated middle class was the cornerstone of America’s postwar economic might

the most important and celebrated character in the Hebrew Bible

The Starker: Big Jack Zelig, the Becker-Rosenthal Case, and the Advent of the Jewish Gangster Ramsey & Todd the characters solve not onlySelig Harry Lefkowitz, alias Big Jack Zelig, was New York's first great gangster boss. Like many of his pre Volstead contemporaries, his historic impact has been overshadowed by Al Capone and Murder Inc. He is listed in today's crime anthologies primarily because four members of the gang, along with corrupt cop Charles Becker, died in the electric chair for the July 1912 murder of gambler Herman Rosenthal. In New York City from 1908 to 1912, however,