Portland Confidential: Sex, Crime, and Corruption in the Rose City by Phil Stanford

Portland Confidential: Sex, Crime, and Corruption in the Rose City

Phil Stanford

192 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction crime history politics dark slow-paced
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From a Portland Tribune columnist comes Portland Confidential, the story of Big Jim Elkins, a conman and criminal who arrived in Portland in 1937 and helped unleash prostitution, bootlegging, gambling, and drug running.

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