David C Taylor’s Michael Cassidy series is a favorite of ours, dealing with a vivid New York of the fifties. Recently, for crime reads he wrote of this true account of a pipe bomber who terrorized the city both pre and post World War Two and how one of the first attempts at criminal profiling brought him down.
https://crimereads.com/how-a-disgruntled-workers-pipe-bombs-led-to-the-birth-of-criminal-profiling/
