Murder in New OrleansNew Orleans in the 1920s and 1930s was a deadly place. In 1925, the citys homicide rate was six times that of New York City and twelve times that of Boston. Jeffrey S. Adler has explored every homicide recorded in New Orleans between 1925 and 1940over two thousand in allscouring police and autopsy reports, old interviews, and crumbling newspapers. More than simply quantifying these cases, Adler places them in larger contextslegal, political, cultural,