The Yiddish Gangster's Daughter (A Becks Ruchinsky Mystery Book 1)

remarks and encouragement proved invaluable. I’d also like to express my gratitude for the support, guidance and patience of my professors in Florida International University’s Creative Writing Program: my thesis advisers Dan Wakefield, Les Standiford, and Bruce Harvey along with John Dufresne and Lynn Barrett. David Morrell generously offered advice on structuring the novel and upping the stakes.
Many of the scenes in this novel revisit historical events documented by authors and researchers who did the real hard digging on the Jewish syndicate. I’d like to recognize Robert A. Rockaway’s But He Was Good to his Mother: The Lives and Crimes of Jewish Gangster, Albert Fried’s The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Gangster in America and Leonard Slater’s The Pledge. Thanks to Dr. Deborah Shlian, Dr. Albert Begas and Sharon Plotkin for technical advice and to readers Stephen J. Forman, Susan Lebrun and Shelley Little.