| Description |
669 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 549-607) and index. |
| Contents |
Mobsters vs. outlaws -- Midwest gangsters and outlaws, 1920-1940 -- The man who carved Capone -- "How Al Capone would run this country" -- Nobody's perfect -- Tale of Morton's horse -- East Coast gangsters and outlaws, 1920-1940 -- The "good killers" gang -- The machine-gun murder of Frankie Yale -- Castellammarese war -- "Murder, Inc." -- "The night of the Sicilian vespers" -- Prohibition-era crime -- Prohibition-era crime chronology, 1920-1929 -- Egan's rats & the purple gang -- St. Louis-area gangsters who moved to other cities -- Hot Springs, Arkansas--underworld resort -- The black hand -- Death corner -- The Unione Siciliana -- Jimmy Murray and rondout robbery -- Gangland's "black widows" -- Another "black widow" -- "The gun that made the twenties roar" -- The tommygun in crime -- The St. Valentine's day massacre -- Massacre myths dispelled -- "Machine gun" Jack McGurn -- Rocco Perri : Canada's Al Capone -- The noble experiment -- "Wets" vs. "drys" -- The brand-name dilemma -- Cost of the "noble experiment" for 13 years -- Prohibition chronology, 1920-1933 -- Upward mobility -- No more saloons -- The wrecking of the eighteenth amendment -- Rhymes of the times -- Chicago's beer wars -- Machine-gun nests -- Rio Burke and Al Capone -- The Chicago crime commission -- The "public enemy" campaign -- The one-way ride -- Bombs and bombast -- The Landesco report -- Gangster funerals --The Wickersham commission -- Depression-era crime -- Depression-era crime chronology, 1930-1940 -- The depression-era desperados -- Out to pasture -- "But it's death to Bonnie & Clyde" -- The "confession" of W.D. Jones -- Hoover's G-men -- Prize fight films, white slavery, and the Justice Department -- The Kansas City massacre -- John Dillinger's wooden-gun jailbreak -- The crate with the "X" -- The Indiana investigation -- Dillinger's supposedly "missing parts" -- Plastic surgery and Piquett's plot -- "Lawyer to the stars" -- The statement of Anna Sage -- Dillinger "on the spot" -- "Red" Ryan, the Canadian Dillinger -- Gang interconnections -- The "gun molls" -- Outlaw gangs : members and "molls" -- Fire into him : the killing of "Pretty Boy" Floyd -- The battle of Barrington -- The body identified as John Hamilton -- The rise & fall of the last great outlaw gang -- Crime control -- Crime control chronology, 1920-1940 -- The "five-state pact" -- Criminal identification -- Criminal anthropology -- Chicago's "scientific crime detection laboratory" -- Bulletproofing cars -- Bulletproofing people -- Police radio -- Alcatraz, 1868-1963 -- Willie Radkay : Alcatraz inmate no. 666 -- Homicide, gun control, and "flaming youth" -- U.S. murder rtes per 100,000 population -- Killed in the line of duty -- Police massacre -- Quotable quotes -- Mother is the best bet : the last words of "Dutch" Schultz. |
| Summary |
A guide to the famous crimes and notorious gansters of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s includes biographies, chronologies, and glossaries of the origins of outlaw terminology and discusses the law enforcement investigations of the crimes. |
| Subject |
Gangsters -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Outlaws -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Outlaw.
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Gangster.
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United States.
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999
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| Subject |
Gangsters. (OCoLC)fst00937713
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Outlaws. (OCoLC)fst01049233
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Added Author |
Mattix, Rick.
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| ISBN |
9781581825244 alkaline paper |
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1581825242 alkaline paper |
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9781581825060 paperback alkaline paper |
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1581825064 paperback alkaline paper |
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