Mob Corner is written by Thom L. Jones. A retired businessman, he has had a long interest in organized crime, and in particular the Sicilian and American Mafia. A hobby triggered by a book he read while studying at university “God Protect Me From My Friends” a biography of the Sicilian bandit Salvatore Guiliano, which started him off into collecting and creating a database of books, articles, reports and internet sources that now amounts to literally thousands of pages of detailed information on the people and events that have changed the face of international crime over the last eighty years.
Although living in New Zealand, and consequently somewhat removed from easy access to traditional research facilities, he has travelled the world extensively over the last thirty years, and still maintains this schedule, allowing him to keep up-to-date with events in North America and Europe.
A contributor to CrimeLibrary.com; the now defunct BostonMafia.com and Mafia-International.com he is now presenting his crime articles and short stories of fiction at Gangsters Inc. hosted by David Amoruso and looks forward to continuing to attract and interest anyone fascinated by this absorbing subject.
Below are his mob stories. If you are interested in more stories and articles on the mob, check out Gangsters Inc.’s American Mafia section.
Stories:
Mafia Wipe-out: Massacre on The Ring Road
Louis Two-Gun: A Headline Gangster
Vanni Sacco: The Mafia and the Politics of Power
The Plugging of Jewish Gangster Plug Shuman
Murder in a Small Town: The Mafia in Pittston
Dead in 18 Minutes: The Massacre of Gela
A Killer Revealed: Who Killed Joe Petrosino?
Death By Distance: Leaving No Seed Behind
Those Who Go By Night: Dominic Di Ciolla and the Los Angeles Mafia
Ernesto Deras. Satan and the Mara Salvatrucha.
Blood and Money. When They Fell. Bringing down the Zips.
Sicilian Blood: The Produce War in Palermo
Corleone. Murders in a Small Town.
When the Music Changed. Destroying the Sicilian Mafia. Again.
The Doyen of Dope Dealers: The life and times of Joe Beck
The Corner on Pleasant Avenue: The Mafia, crooked cops and drugs
The Trial in Bari: How the law tried to bring down the Corleone Mafia
Another Chicago Mob Story: The German and The Outfit
The Caravaggio’s gone! A masterpiece stolen and the Mafia connection
No Way Out: The Life and Death of Mafia Killer Mario Prestifilippo
The Rules of The Game: The Mafia’s Code
A Funeral in Brooklyn: The Mangano Brothers
Franky Boy is Gone: The Killing of a Mafia Boss
Foxtrot One One is Down: The Braybrook Street Massacre
A Murder of Crows: How the kidnapping of the wife of a connected man caused a Mafia cleansing
The Little King of Garbage: New York mobster Vincent Squillante
What is this Thing called Thing? A Very Brief History of The Mafia
Get Frank: How the IRS brought down a mob boss. Again.
A Killing in Palermo: A Triangle of Death
Mob Murder: A Cold Case in Maryland. And the Mafia
For Those That Want Me Dead
Fat Joe Versace and the Calabrian Mafia: A Murder in Australia
Killing Frank: How the Los Angeles Mob Removed a Problem
Behold a Pale Horse – Part One: The Killing of Boris Giuliano
A Death in London
Johnny Stompanato: A Gangster’s Life
Pietro Scaglione: The First Excellent Corpse
Knowing the Way to San Jose: The Mafia family of San Jose
The Wrong Side of Darkness: A Mafia Trilogy
The Two Doctors of Corleone
Journey Without End: A Mafia Murder and the Search for Truth
The Shoot-Out on Troutman Street: The Mafia at War
The Madman of the Mafia
The Man in Potters Field
Only the Dead know Brooklyn
Murder on the Dancefloor: The demise of Gambino Mafia family soldier Anthony Mascuzzio
Five Minutes to Midnight: The Sicilian and New York Mafias, the Catholic Church and a huge finance scandal
Emanuele Notarbartolo, the man who fell from the train, and the dark heart of Italy
The Boys from Bethnal Green: How the infamous Kray Twins ruled the London underworld
Deep in the Heart of Texas: The Rise of the Italian Mafia in the Lone Star State
Out of Africa: The Story of New Orleans Mafia boss Carlos Marcello
Three good men and their fight to the death against the Sicilian Mafia: Giovanni Falcone
The hit on New York Mafia underboss Frank Scalice
Three Good Men – The Second One: Antonino Cassarà
Three Good Men: Life and death in Sicily fighting the Mafia
Catching the Bounce: The Story of Joseph Valachi
Secrets & Lies: Bringing down the Mafia and Italian State
A Man Alone: The Story of Genovese Family Hitman David Petillo
Rumble at Rao’s
To Kill a Dream: The Sicilian Mafia and the Murder of a Priest
Anthony Carfano: Temptation of Revenge
The Life and Death of Mafia Capo Anthony Carfano
A Mafia Killing in Sicily
A Chicago Mob Story: The Man who loved being a Gangster
In search of the Corleonesi: How the Mafia changed forever
The Blackfriars Massacre
The Phantom of The Grand Hotel: Sicily, the Mafia, and a Mystery
Murder Blue in Melbourne, Australia: “Two dogs (cops) have to die!”
The Sound of Silence: How the Mafia in Sicily Communicates
Assault on Law and Order: Melbourne, Australia
The scoop on the man who brought down Genovese
A Mean Street in Queens: To Kill a Cop
The Woman in Black: Leoluchina Sorisi
The Man in Black: Gaspare Magaddino
The Kindness of Death
The Star of Forrest Hills
Give a Man a Gun: The story of Carmine DiBiase
Joe Barboza: Boston Barbarian
The Slaughter at Slaughterhouse Square
Kill The Chinaman
Man is the Cruelest Animal: The story of “Trigger” Mike Coppola
The Man Who Stole the French Connection
La Primula Rossa: The Story of Luciano Leggio (Part 1)
La Primula Rossa (Part 2)
La Primula Rossa (Part 3 – Final)
The Evil That Men Do: The Killing of Robert Kubecka & Donald Barstow
Whack Out On Willie Moretti
The Trouble With Harry
Dead Men On Leave
Hit in Harlem
A Death in the Family
Get ‘The Right Man’: How the FBN Nailed Vito Genovese
Lucky’s Luck: How Charlie Luciano Got Out of Jail and Passed Go
Death in the Afternoon: The Story of Carmine Galante (Part 1 & 2)
Mob Meeting at Apalachin
Being Ernest: The Life and Hard Times of Ernie Rupolo
The Color Purple: Detroit’s Early Mob
The Disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa
Thom’s Fictional Short Stories:
None but The Lonely Heart
Far away, so far away.
Sun Dog in the Afternoon
Moon over Sicily
Snow Falling On Brooklyn
Bridge over Troubled Waters
Hampstead Blues
Run Silent. Run deep
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