So when my fellow crime historian friend Paul Drexler recently released his new book, Notorious San Francisco: True Tales of Crime, Passion and Murder, I was excited to buy a copy and start digging into a fascinating anthology of the most dramatic criminal cases known to this one-of-a-kind...
Then there was the subway which took me and my friends into Manhattan where I went to high school. There were museums, art movie houses, cheap ethnic eats and vibrant street life. Being nerds, we’d haunt the scientific surplus stores – three test tubes for a quarter. In high school, ...