Amazon.com: Little Mexico: An Original Sin City Novel eBook: Cathie John, John Celestri, Cathie Celestri: Kindle Store: Barry Award Finalist: 2001 Best Paperback Original Mystery In the premier gambling hot spot before Las Vegas, a determined woman struggles against the major mob families to hold on to her glamorous casino.
Newport, Kentucky of the 1940s and 1950s (aka Little Mexico), is the illegal gambling capital of the United States, years before Las Vegas is a twinkle in Bugsy Siegel’s eye; and where the long battle between the independent casino operators of Newport and the major crime families of Cleveland, New York, and Chicago created the prototype for the mobster-run Las Vegas gambling industry of the Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin Rat Pack Era. But before that glamorous Las Vegas could exist, the rules were hammered out and written in blood on the streets of Newport.
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Bill,
Cathie and I thank you so very much for the plug!
John Celestri
(the male half of Cathie John)
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