Herbert Asbury bol americký novinár a spisovateľ, ktorého dielo sa sústredilo na detailný opis zločinnosti 19. a začiatku 20. storočia. Preslávil sa svojimi knihami, ktoré sa zaoberali temnejšími stránkami amerických miest v týchto obdobiach. Jeho písanie vynikalo v odhaľovaní skrytých príbehov a zákulisných udalostí, ktoré formovali mestský život. Asburyho práca ponúka fascinujúci vhľad do histórie amerického podsvetia.
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This classic history of crime tells how the Chicago underworld earned - and kept - its notorious reputation, from the time it was settled to the Prohibition days of the 1920s.