 | Capone by John Kobler
Buy used from: $2.15 The Father of Organized Crime!
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 | Dillinger: A Short and Violent Life by Robert Cromie
Buy used from: $4.95 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: $5.63 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: $3.52 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: $12.00 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: $11.56 / Used from: $1.75 Worthy successor to Kobler.
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 | Little Man: Meyer Lansky and the Gangster Life by Robert Lacey
Buy used from: $0.01 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 used from: $7.50 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: $13.95 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: $12.49 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: $10.00 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: $21.56 / Used from: $18.16 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: $21.49 Great biography of Dutch Schultz.
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 | Pretty Boy: The Life & Times Of Charles Arthur Floyd by Michael Wallis
Buy used from: $25.95 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: $17.96 / Used from: $9.00 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: $25.00 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
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: $6.83 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: $29.95 / Used from: $19.02 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: $18.96 / Used from: $11.71 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: $2.70 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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