 | Capone by John Kobler
Buy used from: $1.50 The Father of Organized Crime!
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 | Dillinger: A Short and Violent Life by Robert Cromie
Buy used from: $3.00 The One & Only Public Enemy #1! The late Joe Pinkston was the world's greatest authority on John Dillinger.
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 | Dillinger: The Untold Story by G. Russell Girardin
Buy used from: $8.00 Lost facts on Dillinger brought to surface.
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| The Life and Death of Pretty Boy Floyd by Jeffery S. King
Buy new: $14.40 / Used from: $3.00 The truth about Pretty Boy Floyd and the Kansas City Massacre.
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| Jack 'Legs' Diamond: Anatomy of a Gangster by Gary Levine
Buy used from: $29.99 Best book on Legs Diamond
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 | Mr. Capone: The Real - and complete - story of Al Capone by Robert J. Schoenberg
Buy new: $12.41 / Used from: $2.98 Worthy successor to Kobler.
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 | Little Man: Meyer Lansky and the Gangster Life by Robert Lacey
Buy used from: $1.00 Definitive study of the Mob's Money Man.
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 | Lucky Luciano: The Man Who Organized Crime in America by Hickman Powell
Buy new: $23.95 / Used from: $5.95 Nice near-contemporary look at Luciano's trial
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| Al Capone by F.D. Pasley
Buy used from: $5.95 Good contemporary view of Capone.
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 | The Lives and Times of Bonnie & Clyde by E. R. Milner
Buy used from: $12.11 Better than usual study of B&C. Not saying much but they didn't amount to much either!
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 | Running With Bonnie and Clyde: The Ten Fast Years of Ralph Fults by John Neal Phillips
Buy new: $15.96 / Used from: $11.90 I don't buy everything in this but there's more inside info here on the Barrows than anywhere else.
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 | Depression Desperado: The Chronicle of Raymond Hamilton by Sid Underwood
Buy new: $14.78 / Used from: $30.99 Good bio of another cheap punk but Ray Hamilton was a lot classier than his sometime partners, Bonnie & Clyde.
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 | A Knight of Another Sort: Prohibition Days and Charlie Birger, Second Edition (Shawnee Classics) by Gary DeNeal
Buy new: $17.56 / Used from: $15.37 Definitive bio of Southern Illinois' favorite Prohibition gangster. Charlie Birger fought the Shelton boys in a gang war that had aerial bombings, homemade tanks, armored cars and tommy guns galore!
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 | Baby Face Nelson: Portrait of a Public Enemy by Steven Nickel
Buy new: $19.67 / Used from: $12.90 At long last! The real Baby Face Nelson emerges from his caricatured shadow of the past. Definitive bio of a too-long neglected criminal superstar of the '30's.
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| Mad Dog Coll: An Irish Gangster by Breandan Delap
Finally someone has produced a book length biography of Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll. Well researched, detailed, and accurate.
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 | Kill the Dutchman!: The Story of Dutch Schultz (Da Capo Paperback) by Paul Sann
Buy used from: $13.71 Great biography of Dutch Schultz.
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 | Pretty Boy: The Life & Times Of Charles Arthur Floyd by Michael Wallis
Buy used from: $9.89 Good biography of Pretty Boy Floyd, though perhaps a little too sympathetic. Read this and King's book for a more balanced picture.
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 | Don't Call Us Molls: Women of the John Dillinger Gang by Ellen Poulsen
Buy new: $17.95 / Used from: $8.45 Great slant on the Dillinger gang, from the fascinating, hitherto untold side of the ladies of the gang!
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 | The Purple Gang: Organized Crime in Detroit 1910-1945 (Gangsters and Rum Runners) by Paul Kavieff
Buy used from: $46.00 It's about damn time someone did the Purples! Great history of Detroit's most infamous Prohibition era gang.
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 | The Violent Years: Prohibition and the Detroit Mobs (Gangsters and Rum Runners) by Paul Kavieff
Buy used from: $70.00 Nice companion to the Purple Gang book by the same author, covering other Detroit mobs of the Prohibition era.
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| Lawman to Outlaw: Verne Miller and the Kansas City Massacre by Brad Smith
Long overdue first-rate bio of the man who went from sheriff to public enemy in the turbulent Prohibition era.
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| Brothers Notorious: The Sheltons: Southern Illinois' Legendary Gangsters by Taylor Pensoneau
Buy used from: $30.62 Excellent companion piece to Gary DeNeal's bio of Charlie Birger. Traces the Sheltons to the violent end of the careers in the '40's and beyond.
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 | Bonnie and Clyde: A Twenty-First-Century Update by James R. Knight
Buy new: $29.35 / Used from: $20.70 Jim Knight and Jonathan Davis have created the definitive history of the Barrow gang.
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 | The St. Valentine's Day Massacre: The Untold Story of the Gangland Bloodbath That Brought Down Al Capone by William J. Helmer
Buy new: $19.96 / Used from: $8.88 At long last, popular myths are disspelled and the real truth about the Massacre is revealed by two of our foremost crime historians.
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 | Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34 by Bryan Burrough
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $3.35 First detailed study of the major gangs of the "Dillinger Days" and the rise of the FBI in the first national war on crime.
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 | The Tri-State Terror: The Life and Crimes of Wilbur Underhill by R. D. Morgan
Buy new: $15.56 / Used from: $11.44 Excellent detailed account of Wilbur Underhill, a long forgotten superstar of '30's crime.
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