Wicked Palm Beach:: Lifestyles of the Rich and Heinous

by Eliot Kleinberg

Book Overview

During the Prohibition era, the Royal Poinciana Hotel in Palm Beach featured a secret hallway that led to a clandestine speakeasy called Hypocrite's Row." About the same time, the infamous Ashley gang, a ragtag band of violent criminals, had South Florida gripped in fear. Indeed, few eras in few places were as exciting, outrageous and tragic as the period between World War I and the hammer fall of the Great Depression, when Florida partied, passed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1596297948
• ISBN13: 9781596297944
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.8"