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    Roaring Twenties Cop, Mike Fargo's Own Story
    Roaring Twenties Cop, Mike Fargo's Own Story
    Roaring Twenties Cop, Mike Fargo's Own Story
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    Roaring Twenties Cop, Mike Fargo's Own Story

    By Bill Gutman

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    Just who is Mike Fargo? If you've read any of the books in THE MIKE FARGO MYSTERIES series you know he is a no-nonsense, resolute New York City detective fighting crime and solving murders in the decade known as the Roaring Twenties. Even if you haven't yet read any of the books you probably can come up with an educated guess about the kind of guy he is just from the book descriptions. Now you don't have to guess anymore. The real answers are in ROARING TWENTIES COP, Mike Fargo's Own Story.

    This book will answer all your questions. What kind of childhood did he have? What was his family like? You'll read about the tragic incident that made him want to become a cop and learn why being a New York City detective was the perfect situation for him. You'll also learn what Fargo thinks about the decade of the 1920s – the joke that was Prohibition, the women known as flappers, and all the amazing social and artistic changes taking place right before his eyes. And, of course, you'll also learn just what he thinks about crime and his dogged pursuit of murderers.

    It's Fargo's story because he's telling it in his own words, starting with his 1890s childhood on Staten Island to growing up at the turn of the century and then working on the docks; his first trip into New York City and his early days as a cop on the beat. He'll also describe his feelings when he had to kill for the first time, recall how he acquired a telltale scar across his left cheek and relive the day he called the worst of his life, the 1920 anarchist bombing on Wall Street. He'll also talk about the ladies, the great dames he has known, as well as some of his toughest cases. This is a guy with a difficult and dangerous job, but one who still saw the Roaring Twenties as a special decade, one he enjoyed more than any other.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBill Gutman
    Release dateOct 17, 2016
    ISBN9781370000654
    Roaring Twenties Cop, Mike Fargo's Own Story
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    Bill Gutman

    Bill Gutman is the author of more than one hundred sports books and has written for both young readers and adults.  He lives in Dover Plains, NY with his family and a menagerie of pets.

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      Roaring Twenties Cop, Mike Fargo's Own Story - Bill Gutman

      ROARING TWENTIES COP

      Mike Fargo's Own Story

      as told to Bill Gutman

      Text Copyright © 2016 Bill Gutman

      All Rights Reserved

      Books in the Mike Fargo Mysteries Series

      Murder on Murderer's Row – A Novel

      Death of a Flapper – A Novella

      Murder on Broadway – A Novella

      Seven Days to Murder – A Novella

      A Mike Fargo Trilogy – All Three Novellas

      Roaring Twenties Cop – Mike Fargo's Own Story

      Mike Fargo Mysteries website: www.mikefargo.com

      Contact the Author At: Bill@mikefargo.com

      Cover Design by Jennifer Strang

      Roaring Twenties Cop is a book that combines real people with the fictional. The real people are represented as they were. With the fictional characters, any resemblance to those living or dead is purely coincidental.

      To Ben Croft, a wonderful man whose

      murder at the hands of a sleazy coward

      led to me to become a cop who hated murder

      more than anything else.

      – Mike Fargo

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Chapter One – GROWING UP ON STATEN ISLAND

      Chapter Two – I BECOME A COP

      Chapter Three – PROHIBITION AND THE ROARING TWENTIES

      Chapter Four – DAMES OF ALL KINDS

      Chapter Five – DANGEROUS CASES

      Chapter Six – SOME FINAL THOUGHTS

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      Chapter One – GROWING UP ON STATEN ISLAND

      Why do I do what I do? Damn, three do's in one sentence. Guess I ain't supposed to write like that, but then again, I'm no pro. I'm just a cop, a flatfoot. Oh yeah, a detective to be exact, one step above a cop to some. But we all do the same thing. So, then, why do I do what I do? Simple. I hate crime. Always have. I hate it when good people are victimized. And what I hate most of all is murder, especially when the victim had no business being killed. No one should lose his or her life to a piece of garbage.

      But I'm getting ahead of myself here. You probably wouldn't expect a guy born in rural Staten Island in 1887 to be nosing into the deepest hellholes New York City had to offer in the 1920s, but that's where I ended up. It would have been a lot easier to have become a local constable at home, looking for stray cows and chasing kids for stealing apples. But you know what they say about bigger and better things. That's what everyone wanted in those days. Bigger things for me just meant being a cop in a bigger town. In fact, the biggest town there was.

      My father worked construction, long hard days, and died in a job-related accident when I was just eleven. My older brother, Joe, became a fireman and never left home, not even for a day. My younger brother wasn't so lucky. He wanted to go to college but ended up one of the doughboys in the trenches of France in 1918. He never returned. Now only my mother is left. She still lives in the old place and I try to get out there from time to time, but it's not always easy because the job always has to come first.

      You might say I was a wild kid growing up in the 1890s. There was some electricity on the Island, but we didn't have running water in the house. You had to fetch water from a hand pump out back, and it wasn't far from the outhouse. Try that on for size in the winter. There were no cars then, but horse-drawn wagons everywhere. Me and my friends took a few for some crazy rides through the streets now and then. Told you I was wild. But to us that was fun and we didn't think about the danger or that we were taking someone else's property. Luckily we were young and the only trouble we got into was the whippin' when we got home. A criminal record could have stopped me from becoming a cop.

      I can still remember people celebrating when Staten Island became part of New York City in 1898. They were setting off fireworks and some were even shooting guns in the air. Of course, there were also those who didn't like it much. They were afraid the city would come to the country and corrupt everyone. Fat chance. But it served as an early lesson for me. You'll never find a situation where everyone wants the same things and that can lead to trouble for a simple reason. There will always be some who think about their own wants and needs first, their motivation usually being either power or money.

      That was also the year my father was killed, so there wasn't any celebrating in our house, just my mother fretting about her boys going bad without a daddy. She needn't have worried. We may have been wild, but we weren't bad. And once my old man was gone we knew we'd have to chip in to keep the family afloat.

      As a kid, New York City might as well have been a million miles

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