On the eve of St. Patrick's Day in 1931, the tranquility of the St. Louis' elegant Compton Heights neighborhood was shattered by a horrific double murder in Tower Grove Park. The victims were the son and heir of one of the City's founding families and an unidentified much younger woman, who was not his wife. Both were brutally murdered in the back seat of his custom-built Madame X model 1930 Cadillac. Shoe Town is the story of the earthquake created by those murders and the aftershocks that would resonate from back alley bootlegging to the Easy Streets of St. Louis Society, and from the smoky...