The Complete Public Enemies Almanac: New Facts and
Features on the People, Places, and Events of the
Gangster and Outlaw Era, 1920-1940 by William J.
Helmer and Rick Mattix.

Foreword by Rose Keefe, author of Guns and Roses and
The Man Who Got Away.

Nashville, TN: Cumberland House, June 30, 2006
ISBN 1581825242

The ultimate reference work on the Public Enemy Era
features over 200 biographical entries on East Coast
and Midwest gangsters and outlaws of Twenties and
Thirties, extensive chronologies on crime and crime
control, the most comprehensive annotated bibliography
to date on the subject, revised accounts of the St.
Valentine's Day Massacre, the Castellammarese War, the
Kansas City Massacre, the death of Dillinger, Murder
Inc., and much more. Other interesting features
include case histories of Egan's Rats, the Purple
Gang, the Barker-Karpis Gang, and Canadian mob boss
Rocco Perri, the cryptic Last Words of Dutch Schultz,
origins of the Mafia and its popular confusion with
Unione Siciliana and the Black Hand, the long and
previously unpublished confession of Bonnie & Clyde
gang member W.D. Jones, lists of all New York and
Chicago police officers and federal agents killed in
the line of duty between 1920 and 1940, and much more.
Filled with tons of headlines and photos (many
previously unpublished).  

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