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Boston University; Columbia University.
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Shirley Ryce spent almost two decades as a playgirl within the orbit of Hamilton's notorious Papalia crime ''family''. In Mob Mistress, award winning crime writer James Dubro, author of the best selling Mob Rule, tells her story.
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James Dubro
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Dubro earned an undergraduate degree (Phi Beta Kappa) from Boston University, received his master"s degree from Columbia University, and did graduate work at Harvard University. He moved to Toronto from his native Boston to teach English literature at Victoria College at the University of Toronto. In 1973- January 9, 1974 when it aired, he researched a news-breaking hour-long documentary on espionage in Canada for Canadian Broadcasting Company Television"s entitled The Fifth Estate:The Espionage Establishment." The title of "the fifth estate wax used 19 months later by Canadian Broadcasting Company television for its now long-running investigative television magaine show.
He then became one of the producers of Connections, a series on organized crime broadcast on Canadian Broadcasting Company Television in 1977 and 1979.
Dubro then became a researcher and associate producer for the fifth estate. After leaving the Canadian Broadcasting Company to work as a freelancer, Dubro wrote five books on organized crime in Canada and its international connections.
He has also researched, written, or produced documentaries on organized crime, Cuba, the Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) and the Central Intelligence Agency that have appeared on Canadian Broadcasting Company, Public Broadcasting Service, A&East, Citytv and CTV. He co-authored the definition of "organized crime" for all editions of The Canadian Encyclopedia. He was president of the Crime Writers of Canada (CWC) for two years and has been awarded its 2002 "Derrick Murdoch" award for his non-fiction crime writing and his many years of CWC work.
In more recent years, Dubro, a longtime activist on policing issues in the LGBT community, has written on crime and policing matters for Xtra!.
He has also acted a comsultant and interview subject on the History Channel television series Mob Stories. He is now a freelance crime journalist based in Toronto. Morningside, King of the Bootleggers, starring Bruno Gerussi and Barbara Budd, the story of Rocco Perri, co-authored with Robin Rowland.
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