THE DARK CITY (Eliot Ness)

by Max Allan Collins

  A few other books deserve specific mention, including: Cleveland: Prodigy of the Western Reserve (1979), George C. Condon; Crime in America (1951), Estes Kefauver; Cleveland, the Making of a City (1959), William Ganson Rose; The Years Were Good (1956), Louis B. Seltzer; The Encyclopedia of American Crime (1982), Carl Sifakis; Cleveland's Changing Skyline (1984), Jim Toman and Dan Cook; The Terminal Tower Complex (198O), Jim Toman and Dan Cook; Organized Crime in America (1962), Gus Tyler; U.S.A. Confidential (1952), Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer.

  A special tip of the hat to the Hastings family of Cleveland, for impromptu tours, background info, and hospitality.

  I would like to thank my editor, Coleen O'Shea, for giving me the opportunity to write this book and, once written, suggesting ways to improve it; my agent Dominick Abel, about whom you read in this book's dedication (and whose idea it was to provide Ness with "a ticking clock"); and my wife, Barbara Collins, for her love, help, and support during this difficult project.