Teresa Carpenter, Author . Simon & Schuster $25 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7432-0055-4
Zooming in on a historical footnote, the kidnapping of an American missionary by Macedonian revolutionaries in 1901, Carpenter discovers a Byronic adventure and an early lesson in the perils of international power for the U.S. Ellen Stone was a...
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Teresa Carpenter, Author Zebra $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8217-4151-1
Carpenter expertly recounts the anomalous tale of Arlyne Weiss Brickman, who after 25 years in the criminal underworld became a major witness for the government against organized crime. Photos. (June)
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Teresa Carpenter, Author W. W. Norton & Company $18.95 (478p) ISBN 978-0-393-02569-9
Perhaps not wanting to waste a footnote of her assiduous research, Carpenter, a Village Voice journalist, endlessly leads us into blind turns with insignificant information and further slows unfolding horrific events by supplying a curriculum vitae...
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Teresa Carpenter, Author Simon & Schuster $21 (288p) ISBN 978-0-671-68345-0
Arlyne Weiss grew up on Manhattan's Lower East Side, the daughter of a Jewish mobster who ran an auto sales business as a front. In 1947, aged 14, she made the decision to emulate her heroine, Bugsy Siegel's girlfriend Virginia Hill, and become a...
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