Post by bookrefuge on May 17, 2012 7:18:15 GMT -5
Well, Kevin was right, you don’t need a Kindle to read a Kindle book; you just download the Kindle app for free, then you can buy and read Kindle books on your PC. I decided to go ahead and read Michael Foldes’ Kindle-only book Sleeping Dogs. I read it on the run and did not read every word.
Foldes, like most investigators, reviews many facts that are already well-known about the LKC. What he adds that is unique is a reported confession by a Theresa Smold. Before she died in 1978, Smold said that the kidnappers hid out at her property (on Beaver Road in Red Hook, NY) as well as at a neighboring boarding house. Smold was born in Austria in 1892. Unfortunately, not only is she dead, but almost everyone who heard her confession is now dead as well, though Foldes spoke to the hearers while they were still living. “Grandma” Smold did not provide any enlightening information about the kidnapping, and had no proof to back her assertion—except she said that a gun used in the crime was buried in her chicken coop. After she died, the new owners of the house dug in the coop, and sure enough, found an old pistol. They showed it to Foldes; he photographed it and it appears on the cover of his book. Unfortunately, he says, the gun has since disappeared. Foldes seems to think it was used to shoot the baby, which I think I few others would consider likely.
Foldes believes that a Bavarian-born associate of the Smolds named Hugo Firsching may have been involved in the crime. He lived at 2918 Kingsland Avenue in the Bronx, about a mile from the Hauptmanns. Foldes thinks Firsching may have been doing hunting and trapping, and that this might have linked him to Hauptmann (a hunter) and to Isidor Fisch (possibly supplying Fisch with some of his furs from his trapping).
That is just my quick take on the book; others may certainly glean more. It is a pretty inexpensive read at $4.99. Foldes is not a bad writer, and he did some research at the NJSP Archives.
Foldes, like most investigators, reviews many facts that are already well-known about the LKC. What he adds that is unique is a reported confession by a Theresa Smold. Before she died in 1978, Smold said that the kidnappers hid out at her property (on Beaver Road in Red Hook, NY) as well as at a neighboring boarding house. Smold was born in Austria in 1892. Unfortunately, not only is she dead, but almost everyone who heard her confession is now dead as well, though Foldes spoke to the hearers while they were still living. “Grandma” Smold did not provide any enlightening information about the kidnapping, and had no proof to back her assertion—except she said that a gun used in the crime was buried in her chicken coop. After she died, the new owners of the house dug in the coop, and sure enough, found an old pistol. They showed it to Foldes; he photographed it and it appears on the cover of his book. Unfortunately, he says, the gun has since disappeared. Foldes seems to think it was used to shoot the baby, which I think I few others would consider likely.
Foldes believes that a Bavarian-born associate of the Smolds named Hugo Firsching may have been involved in the crime. He lived at 2918 Kingsland Avenue in the Bronx, about a mile from the Hauptmanns. Foldes thinks Firsching may have been doing hunting and trapping, and that this might have linked him to Hauptmann (a hunter) and to Isidor Fisch (possibly supplying Fisch with some of his furs from his trapping).
That is just my quick take on the book; others may certainly glean more. It is a pretty inexpensive read at $4.99. Foldes is not a bad writer, and he did some research at the NJSP Archives.