About one hundred pages of The Barrel Mystery by William J. Flynn can now be accessed on the American Mafia history website.
The Barrel Mystery, published in 1919 (copyright has expired), is the story of U.S. Secret Service efforts to help solve the “barrel murder” of 1903 and to dismantle Mafia counterfeiting operations supervised by Mafia boss of bosses Giuseppe Morello and his brother-in-law Ignazio Lupo. Author Flynn was head of the New York office of the Secret Service when Morello and his men were finally brought to justice.
Portions of the book were previously published on our Caged Wolves website. It is our hope to soon have the entire book available online.