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The complete public enemy almanac : new facts and features on the people, places, and events of the gangster and outlaw era, 1920-1940 William J. Helmer and Rick Mattix
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks HV 6446 .H37 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Helmer, William J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gangsters--United States--History--20th century.
- Gangsters.
- Outlaws--United States--History--20th century.
- Outlaws.
- Physical Description:
- 669 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Nashville, Tenn. : Cumberland House, 2006.
- 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 machine-gun murder of Frankie Yale
- The "good killers" gang
- Castellammarese war
- "The night of the Sicilian vespers"
- Murder, incorporated
- Prohibition-era crime chronology, 1920 / 1929
- Egan's rats & the purple gang
- Hot springs
- St. Valentine's day massacre
- Jack McGurn's death
- "The gun that made the twenties roar"
- Black widows
- The black hand
- Unione siciliana
- Death corner
- Jimmy Murray and rondout robbery
- Rocco Perri
- The noble experiment
- Prohibition chronology, 1920 - 1933
- New York vs. Chicago
- Wets vs. drys
- Upward mobility
- No more saloons
- Brand names
- Wrecking the eighteenth amendment
- Rhymes of the times
- Chicago's beer wars
- Bombs and bombast
- Machine-gun nests
- One-way ride
- Rio Burke
- Gangster funerals
- The Chicago crime commission
- The Landesco report and the Wickersham commission
- Gangland-style murders
- Chicago's public enemy campaign
- Depression-era crime chronology, 1930-1940
- The depression desperados
- Bonnie & Clyde
- W. D. Jones "confession"
- Gang interconnections
- Out to pasture
- Gun molls
- Hoover's G men
- Prize fight films
- The Kansas City massacre
- Hoover and the LCN
- The mafia menace
- The rise & fall of the last great outlaw gang
- Dillinger's wooden-pistol jailbreak
- Indiana investigation
- The "crate with an x"
- John Dillinger's supposedly missing parts
- Plastic surgery and Piquett's plot
- The statement of Anna Sage
- Lawyer to the "stars"
- Dillinger "on the spot"
- "Red" Ryan, the Canadian Dillinger
- The battle of Barrington
- The execution of pretty boy Floyd
- The body identified as John Hamilton
- Crime control
- Crime control chronology, 1920-1940
- Chicago's "scientific crime detection laboratory"
- Bulletproofing cars
- Bulletproofing people
- Police radio
- Five-state pact
- Criminal identification
- Criminal anthropology
- Alcatraz, 1868-1963
- Homicide, gun control, and flaming youth
- Killed in the line of duty
- Police massacre
- Quotable quotes
- Gangster and outlaw quatations
- The last words of Dutch Schultz.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781581825244 (alk. paper)
- 1581825242 (alk. paper)
- 9781581825060 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 1581825064 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- OCLC:
- 64896644
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