Wicked Philadelphia: Sin in the City of Brotherly Love

(The History Press) The author recounts 11 infamous or long-forgotten scandals in Philadelphia. These stories, filled with unbelievable events and colorful characters, range from the Mischianza of 1778 when the British Army spent $700,000 to throw a grand party celebrating their defeat as they evacuated the city; to the Spanish washerwoman who pretended to be a baroness; and the Philadelphia blueblood who wound up being the first “sugar daddy.” Keels is a writer and historian in Philadelphia.