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Searching for the truth, or the approximation of the truth, about a master criminal who spent his life hiding that truth from police, prosecutors, rivals, the publicat-large-and his own wife-is, to say the least, difficult. Searching seven decades after his murder is harder still. Searching without assistance is foolhardy. Accomplishing it alone is impossible.

Any number of institutions proved helpful in my journey to find the real Arnold Rothstein and the times in which he lived: The Albany (NY) Public Library; the Amsterdam (NY) Free Library; Beebe Library, Boston University; Chicago Public Library, the Federal Bureau of Investigation; the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin; the Hudson Valley Community College Library; the Library of Congress-Prints & Photographs Division, the Mount Holyoke College Library; the Municipal Archives of the City of New York; the National Baseball Library; the National Museum of Racing; the New York Public Library; the New York State Library; the City Clerk’s Office, City of Saratoga Springs, New York; the San Francisco Public Library; the St. Louis Public Library; the Saratoga Springs (NY) Public Library; the Schenectady County (NY) Public Library; the Schenectady County (NY) Community College Library; the Schaffer Library, Union College (Schenectady, NY); the University of Florida at Tallahassee; Transcendental Graphics; the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library-Yale Collection of American Literature at Yale University.