New York State Of Mind

New York Jewish Week, The, April, 2008 by Brawarsky, Sandee

After being away for 40 years, Warren Adler is back home with several new city- (and Catskills)-centric books.

Growing up in Brownsville in the 1930s, Warren Adler would pass a small 24-hour candy store almost every day on Saratoga Avenue, around the corner from his home. The toughs who hung out there were bad guys who were looked up to by those in the neighborhood as heroes. Only years later would he learn that this was the headquarters of Murder Incorporated, and that many of the Jewish guys drinking egg creams were killers.

Adler, the 80-year-old best-selling author of "The War of the ...