In the tradition of "The Devil in the White City" comes a riveting recreation of one of the most infamous crimes of the 20th century--the scandalous Leopold-Loeb murder case that shocked Chicago. Photos throughout.
The authors present the untold story of the gangland bloodbath that took place in Chicago on February 14, 1929--the machine-gun murders of seven men by killers dressed as cops--which brought down Al Capone. photos.
Max Templeton had been tapped by the mysterious Blackwell Group to catch the one man who had escaped him. Packing his bags for Chicago, Max had to crack the case before another body turned up. Luckily, he had his new assistant Cassie Clark in tow. The ill-humored inspector needed the lovely Cassie by his side--even if he was too stubborn to admit ...
Members of a Chicago jazz band are being murdered by a mysterious hitman known as the Cleaner. Could their deaths have anything to do with the romance between a Mafia princess and one of the band members? The worlds of jazz and the Mob collide in this tense, witty, and clever debut. Original.
Between 1875 and 1920, Chicago's homicide rate more than quadrupled, making it the most violent major urban centre in the United States - or, in the words of Lincoln Steffens', "First in Violence, Deepest in Dirt". In many ways, however, Chicago became more orderly as it grew. Hundreds of thousands of newcomers poured into the city, yet levels of ...
The fascinating and highly documented information contained in this new illustrated book could well be a significant development in the Torso Murders of the 1930s, the murder of Suzanne Degnan, the murder of the Black Dahlia, and the Zodiac Murders.
Blazing from the West Side, the Great Chicago Fire left nothing but ashy remnants of the developing city leveling its landscape but certainly not its spirit. While the West Side was home to the infamous O'Leary Barn, it was also where the news of some of the city's most gruesome and horrific crime reverberated throughout the state and across the ...
Lurking below the Loop, behind the industry-driven energy of Chicago, lies the mysterious criminal underworld of the South Side. Recounting criminal exploits of legends like Alphonse Capone, as well as lesser-known stories like the Car Barn Bandits, Troy Taylor captures the intricacies of the most infamous stories of Chicago's South Side. From the ...
In 1929, Chicago gangster Al Capone arranged a special St. Valentine's Day delivery for his favorite arch enemies: a massacre. Seven North Side mobsters were left dead. Yet random killings and bizarre murders were not unfamiliar in Chicago. Tales of the city's most violent and puzzling murders make this gripping work truly hair-raising: a deranged ...
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