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You wouldn't want to--Collins, Max Allan
Summary: "A THRILLING MAGNUM OPUS ON AMERICA'S GREAT CRIME EPIC. A Mystery Writers of America "Grand Master"--author of the gangster classic Road to Perdition, long-time Dick Tracy writer, and multiple Shamus Award winner--teams with an acclaimed rising young historian, in this riveting, myth-shattering dual portrait of Al Capone, America's most notorious gangster, and Eliot Ness, the legendary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 COLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 COLMatthews, Rupert.
Summary: "Keep your cool. If you panic and reveal your true identity, you'll be in big trouble. Stay away from thugs "packing heat." These ruthless gangsters are armed and very dangerous. Step on it! As a wheelman, you'll have to drive a gateway car at top speed. Don't get too comfy. Some gangsters lead a life of luxury. Don't forget that their money has beeen stolen from honest folks" --Cover, p. 4.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Franklin Watts 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 364 MATFleming, Candace
Summary: How did two teenagers brutally murder an innocent child ... and why? And how did their brilliant lawyer save them from the death penalty in 1920s Chicago? Written by a prolific master of narrative nonfiction, this is a compulsively readable true-crime story based on an event dubbed the "crime of the century." In 1924, eighteen-year-old college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb made a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anne Schwartz Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364.152 FLECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364.152 FLEJobb, Dean
Summary: "It was a time of unregulated madness. And nowhere was it madder than in Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties ... Enter a slick, smooth-talking, charismatic lawyer named Leo Koretz, who enticed hundreds of people ... to invest as much as $30 million--upwards of $400 million today--in phantom timberland and nonexistent oil wells in Panama ... When Leo's scheme finally collapsed in 1923,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KORETZ, LEO ROBJobb, Dean
Summary: It was a time of unregulated madness. And nowhere was it madder than in Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties. As Model Ts rumbled down Michigan Avenue, gang war shootings announced Al Capone's rise to underworld domination. Bedecked partygoers thronged to the Drake Hotel's opulent banquet rooms, corrupt politicians held court in thriving speakeasies, and the frenzy of stock market...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015