Assignment Homicide

By Jeanne Toomey

Book Overview

Working for as many as 30 newspapers, as well as the Associated Press and King Features Syndicate in her career, Toomey has been a veteran wanderer and itinerant. Here the only living founder of the New York Press Club shares the story behind the stories.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865345171
• ISBN13: 9780865345171
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Sunstone Press
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

absolutely a must read!

As a former New York City reporter myself for over 30 years, Ms. Toomey held me spellbound in accurately portraying the pulse and rhythm of those exciting and carefree front page newspapering days of the 40s and 50's.Drawing on a wealth of personal and professional experience, the author paints a colorful and dynamic portrait of her years as a beat reporter in New York.The graphic and vivid accounts of murder, corruption, crime and a host of other nefarious activites captures the true spirit of that golden era of news reporting. AN ABSOLUTE MUST READ!

The *real* "His Gal Friday"

Past, present and future reporters, armchair newshounds, film noir buffs, and anyone who loves and/or remembers the glory days of newspaperdom will appreciate this stop-the-presses era memoir, and fall in love with its feisty heroine.

life as a female news reporter from the 1940's on in Nyc

With the shortage of men during the Second World War, Ms. Toomey becomes a newspaper reporter and writer in the previously "mens only" domains of crime and ships news. The book is filled with people and landmarks that will fascinate students of popular culture and history. Some of the situations and comments are priceless. As someone who enjoys reading about the people of New York and the boroughs, Winchell and other types, I enjoyed this very much. Among other side jobs, Ms. Toomey worked in radio with a husband and wife team, Ed and Pegeen Fitzgerald, and she talks about the people as they were off the air. An enjoyable read, I liked its episodic style as well.