The Life and Death of Pretty Boy Floyd

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A Short and Violent Life.......2003-01-25

Author Jeffery King has provided us with an interesting account of the short and violent life of Charles Arthur Floyd. Floyd was one of many depression-era desperadoes who focused on bank-robbing as a way of life. One of the things that struck me was the relative ease of breaking out of jail or prison during this time. Another was the putting on display of the dead bodies of gangsters during this time period for the curious public. Floyd was defended by his mother who claimed he didn't do as many things as he was accused of. He apparently agreed to surrender to authorities if he could be assured of life in prison and not get the death penalty. When no such deal was forthcoming, Floyd realized that his time was short and he would be shot to death. Also of interest in this story is the jealously of F.B.I. Director John Edgar Hoover towards officer Melvin Purvis. Hoover had Purvis leave the scene of the shooting of Floyd immediately to minimize the credit given to him. Maybe Hoover should have been focusing on big time mobsters instead of small time hoodlums like Floyd. There also is controversy regarding the death of Floyd and if it was, indeed, necessary to kill him after he had been wounded in an Ohio field. The author has done an excellent job researching this book, and it is worth your time to read it if you are interested in depression era gangsters.

The Truth About Pretty Boy.......2001-07-11

At last an author has examined the documentary evidence of Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd's extensive criminal career, rather than simply relating family and "good ole boy" fables of Floyd's Robin Hood qualities. Or relying on the fantasies of "Blackie" Audett, a minor bank burglar and later Justice Department stool pigeon at Alcatraz who invented tall tales of having known or worked with Pretty Boy, Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde, the Barker-Karpis gang and just about every other major criminal of the '30's. Audett claimed to have witnessed the crowning achievement of Floyd's career, the Kansas City Union Station massacre--except that by his account Floyd wasn't there and someone else did the shooting. Various other authors--Lou Louderback, Michael Wallis, and Jay Robert Nash (who also bought Audett's tale of having helped Dillinger make a permanent escape by having a double slain in his place!)--have accepted Audett's story of Floyd's innocence. Many of us who have researched the massacre with more care have long been skeptical of Audett's claim but only Jeffery King has bothered to ascertain just where Audett was at the time of the massacre. He was in Leavenworth until July 1933, a whole month after the Union Station killings! King makes a good case for the complicity of Floyd in the massacre and does an equally admirable job of tracking down the elusive details of Floyd's early career in crime, including the fabled Akins post office burglary, which did not involve the theft of $350 in pennies, the probable true origin of the famous nickname, and the many bank robberies. He also nails down the often-doubted but very probable (and brief) association of Floyd with Dillinger and "Baby Face" Nelson and gets us as close as we'll probably ever be to the real story of Pretty Boy's death at the hands of the FBI. This is investigative journalism at its finest and also displays an objectivity sadly lacking in the thicker sweeping bio offered earlier by Michael Wallis.

Compelling Reading!.......1999-09-27

Jeffrey King has produced a well-researched biography of Pretty Boy Floyd, one of the most infamous bank robbers of the 1930s. Although filled with documentation, this book reads like a novel. I appreciated King's historical analysis of the evidence regarding Floyd's life and death and I had a hard time putting the book down. I found the book to be especially gripping in the section dealing with the final hunt for Floyd by the FBI and Floyd's demise in a rural area of Ohio. The book is reminiscent of John Toland's "The Dillinger Days," which is another fine volume about famous bank robbers of the Depression Era. My only criticism of the book is that King failed to emphasize sufficiently the self-centered, sociopathic character of Floyd. For example, on the last page of the text of the book, King stated that Floyd "had many virtues, such as courage, loyalty to his family and friends, and compassion for those who struggled to survive during the bleak days of the Depression" (p. 210). On the contrary, Floyd cheated on his wife (he often lived with another lover, Beulah Baird, and was known to frequent brothels), and stole from, expoited, threatened, harassed, kidnapped, or killed many innocent victims, including many poor and middle class people. Today, Floyd would be diagnosed as an antisocial personality disorder and he was a sinister man whose criminal deeds, including numourous murders, reaped havoc on dozens, if not hundreds of people. This shortcoming does not overshadow the rest of King's fine work, however. In conclusion, I commend King on completing an excellent book and I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys a compelling read.

The Complete Public Enemy Almanac: New Facts and Features on the People, Places, and Events of the Gangster and Outlaw Era, 1920-1940

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Must have for crime buffs or researchers
An essential reference work
Countless hours of research
The Bible of the 1930s Outlaws and Gangsters
Very impressive scholarship

The Complete Public Enemy Almanac: New Facts and Features on the People, Places, and Events of the Gangster and Outlaw Era, 1920-1940
William J. Helmer , and Rick Mattix
Manufacturer: Cumberland House Publishing
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ASIN: 1581825242
Release Date: 2007-07-02

Book Description

If American crime had a golden age, it was between 1920 and 1940—the roller-coaster years when a rural nation became urbanized and the nineteenth century finally gave away to the twentieth. The same forces that reshaped society also changed the face of crime, and soon the Progressive movement that battled urban decay led to the unintended consequences of increased police and political corruption, drunkenness transformed from a working-class vice to middle-class rebellion, and organized crime was established nationally.
The Complete Public Enemy Almanac is the ultimate reference book for the gangster era, with many unique features:
• A highly original and revisionist history of the period, covering the entire nation
• A unique, unmatched collection of gangster and outlaw biographies
• Hundreds of illustrations and period photographs
• A full, first-ever crime chronology of the period
• Dozens of short features on everything from the shift from local to federalized law enforcement to the history of body armor and goofy schemes to deal with "motorized bandits"
• The origins and meanings of such terms as the "one-way ride," "X marks the spot," "the real McCoy," "G-Man," "Public Enemy," and many more
• Innovative lists, including the Chicago Crime Commission's "body count" of gang-style murders during the period
• New light on the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, the Kansas City Massacre, the deliberate killing of Pretty Boy Floyd, the mysterious death of Baby Face Nelson, and other events
• An exhaustive bibliography (including numerous short reviews) of every true-crime book published about gangsters and outlaws of the twenties and thirties
Meticulously documented, lavishly detailed, exhaustively researched, and written with an eye for the turths that have remained largely hidden, The Complete Public Enemy Almanac provides a reliable source of information about the violent and lawless era of the twenties and thirties.

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Must have for crime buffs or researchers.......2007-10-08

Helmer and Mattix have delivered a fun format for such a massive delivery of entertaining information. As I flip through the pages, I feel this book is almost interactive in design-- photos followed by short stories and an on-going chronology of national events interspersed with important definitions and short bios of key players. More than an exhaustive reference work, this book is a one-volume library and definitely a must-have for anyone interested in crime history. Excellent gift idea, too, and a surprising value for the money.

An essential reference work.......2007-10-05

Authors William J. Helmer and Rick Mattix have produced an extensive and truly essential reference work on the Gangster Era (1920-1940). The book breaks down criminal and law enforcement history into its various component parts, dealing with characters and events through the use of individual biographical essays and sprawling, detailed chronologies. Every serious outlaw of the period - from Accardo, through Capone, Dillinger and McGurn, to Abner "Longie" Zwillman - is represented.

At the same time, the work ties elements together and probes more deeply into causes and effects through an impressive collection of articles on topics such as the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, the Castellammarese War, criminal use of the Tommygun, the evolution of investigative techniques, early efforts toward bulletproofing...

The Almanac is amply illustrated with photos and other images, many of which have not been available before. And a treasure of information awaits those who dig to the back of the book. There will be found a collection of gangster quotes, including the last words of Dutch Schultz; gang membership lists; and a comprehensive, annotated bibliography of Gangster Era books, which itself is worth the price of admission.

Casual presentation and a laid-back writing style provide comfortable cover for this work of genuine scholarship but may be misinterpreted on a quick glance as a lack of professionalism. Design elements surely would have benefited from closer attention. However, the few superficial negatives do not detract in any substantial way from the authors' achievement.

The Complete Public Enemy Almanac is a must-have for crime historians and a useful and informative guide for the True Crime reader.

Countless hours of research.......2007-08-23

Reviewed by Kathleen Dowdell for Reader Views (8/07)

This beautifully-bound, 889-page, hardcopy book is a must have for any person interested in true-crime. Chock full of gangster and outlaw events of the 1920s to 1940s era, the authors have succeeded in presenting in chronological order, many little known facts that occurred in what they call the golden age of crime. The book may be a little daunting with its dialogue and graphic pictures, but it gives the reader a true sense of how life in America really was in those days and is an example of good stories often ignored because of the negative connotation they portray.

Each of the seven chapters is filled with nuggets of factual information that has been researched and documented by the authors. Besides just telling about the events that took place during this era, the authors provide in-depth information about the evolution of official police departments, passage of amendments, inception of cooperative crime control, and the development of criminal identification in crime detection laboratories in Chicago. Throughout the book, events occur in chronological order giving the reader a sense of order, enabling an easy transition from one event to the next.

An entire chapter is devoted to "quotable quotes." You can read about Al Capone's colorful remark about prohibition in which he says "When I sell liquor, they call it bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on silver trays on Lake Shore Drive, they call it hospitality," and "You can get much farther with a smile, a kind word, and a gun than you can with a smile and a kind word." One chapter's focus is on mobsters and outlaws and explains the difference between consensual crime and violent crime. Included in this chapter are short biographies of gangsters and outlaws who achieved notoriety.

It is apparent that countless hours of research went into gathering and documenting all of the information found in this book. This book could never be read in one sitting, nor would you want to rush through the meticulously scribed information. To aid in taking your research even further, the authors provide nearly 60-pages of bibliographical resources. That in itself is an added treat.

I would recommend "The Complete Public Enemy Almanac" for any historical researcher who needs accurate facts and information on how crime has influenced politics and culture. In addition, the book is filled with newspaper headlines, cartoons, pictures, and biographies about the golden age of crime. This would make a great bedside book on a dark, stormy night.

The Bible of the 1930s Outlaws and Gangsters.......2007-08-15

When I bought this book I dove right in. It reads like a timline of all the Public Enimies and their crimes. I have not put the book down since I bought it. Bill Helmer and Rick Mattix are the top dogs in the world of 1930s crime and it shows in the book. I have to say that this is the best book that I have purchased in a long time. Any fan of Alvin Karpis,John Dillinger,Lester Gillis, Aurthur Floyd, Bonnie and Clyde and Al Capone, this book is a must have. Whenever a fact is in doubt I grab my "Bible" and look it up. The best book on the subject ever.

Very impressive scholarship.......2007-07-30

This book impressively manages to break new ground in a well-tilled field by offering previously unpublished stories and photos from the gangster era, 1920-1940. The standards are all here, of course, in skillful prose -- Baby Face Nelson, the Purple Gang, Bonnie and Clyde, etc. What I'm looking for first and foremost are accurate facts, and this book has impressed many true crime scholars on that score.

The authors, both familiar and respected names in the gangster genre, manage to come up with previously unpublished photos that nobody's seen in decades, such as a "new" photo of Scarface. And I was fascinated by their take on the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, the murders that spelled the death knell for Prohibition. Most impressive is the book's 58-page annotated bibliography of gangster literature, the most comprehensive I have ever seen in the true crime genre.

To my delight, the authors also rammed the back roads collecting stories of dozens of forgotten gangsters, such as Rocco Perri -- Canada's Capone. Few crime encyclopedias pass my rigorous test -- to go beyond the well-known and well-worn stories and into the lesser-known but often just as absorbing tales of minor-league criminals, the development of crime labs, and the revolution in crime control. This is an excellent, well researched, reliable encyclopedia.
Laura James

Pretty Boy: The Life and Times of Charles Arthur Floyd

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5 Stars + 5 Stars + 5 Stars!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A personal portrait of the life of Choc Floyd
SUPERB BIO!
Too Sweeping, Lack of Objectivity
A very interesting and well-researched book.

Pretty Boy: The Life and Times of Charles Arthur Floyd
Michael Wallis
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In this outstanding work, Michael Wallis magnificently recreates the vanished, impoverished world of Dustbowl America that has not been as poignantly rendered in prose since John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Wallis evokes the hard times of the era of Steinbeck as he follows the life of Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd from his coming of age at a time when there were no jobs and no food, to his decent into petty crime, bootlegging, his murders, jail terms, and his own brutal slaying by the FBI in an Ohio field in 1934 at the age of thirty. Pretty Boy is a social history at its best, portraying, with a sweepings style, the larger story of the hardscrabble farmers whose lives were so intolerably shattered by Depression.

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5 Stars + 5 Stars + 5 Stars!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2007-05-17

His absolute, hands-down best!!!!!! Michael Wallis tells the story of Pretty Boy Floyd while keeping you intimately interested. My favorite book of all time!!!

A personal portrait of the life of Choc Floyd.......2007-02-13

This book provides a portrait of the life of Choc Floyd mainly from the perspective of his family and friends, and fair enough as their views and memories have a right to be published too. It is too broad a brush and too simple to paint a man as completely without merit or morals and this book restores some balance and looks at his life, the decisions he made; his relationships with family and friends and of course his criminal activities.

That said; he could kill ruthlessly when required and made his a lot of his living by robbing banks and terrorising innocent people this book does not deny he did many wrong things but he was wrongly blamed for some crimes he probably had nothing to do with. Two claims in this book l wish to comment on.

The books asserts he has nothing to do with the Kansas City Union massacre in 1933, where as other books and some magazines make the claim he was involved in it. If he was involved then it was totally out of sync with his previous criminal activities, he may have been there but it does not seem right. The second point is by a East Liverpool policeman, l think Chester Smith, who was present with the Feds when Floyd was shot and captured, (and also claims to have fired two shots that wounded Floyd and bought him down) claimed publicly many years later, after Purvis and Hoover has passed away that Melvin Purvis, ordered one of his federal agents to execute a wounded Floyd lying on the ground. This is an amazing claim and a shaky one, looking at the character and career of Purvis l find this one unbelievable; that said an interesting book for true crime buffs.

SUPERB BIO!.......2001-11-13

This is without question the best biography I have come across in many years. I strongly suggest anyone who has even an inkling of interest in modern American history make it a point to get this book and read it. They will not be disapponited.

Too Sweeping, Lack of Objectivity.......2001-07-23

The first major biography of Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd is a sweeping "life and times" effort, a well-researched opus that concentrates as much on early 1900's-Depression era America as on a straight biography of Floyd. It's too bad because Floyd himself deserved a more detailed treatment, as well as a more objective one. Much of the information on Floyd came from family and friends and, while this is interesting and informative, one gets the distinct impression that Wallis got too close to his subject, blinded perhaps by the folkloric image of Floyd as a Southwestern Depression Robin Hood. This is somewhat understandable. Floyd was falsely accused in his own day of many atrocious crimes, such as the "Young brothers' massacre," but the fact remains that he was a ruthless killer as well as a bank robber and that a preponderance of evidence exists suggesting Floyd's guilt in the Kansas City Union Station massacre. Wallis ignores this evidence, accessible in thousands of pages of FBI files he claims to have read, and instead builds straws for Floyd's innocence in this crime. Such as relying on the testimony of "Blackie" Audett, a minor bank burglar of the period and notorious liar, who claimed to have witnessed the massacre but whose story is shot full of holes. Audett was in prison at the time of the shooting and one of the men he named as an "actual" killer had been murdered over two years earlier. This doesn't stop Wallis in his determination to vindicate his Robin Hood idol. In all, it's a nice professional work--a thick book with some nice photos, a bibliography and an index. It could have been much better, as evidenced by the more recent The Life and Death of Pretty Boy Floyd by Jeffery King.

A very interesting and well-researched book........2001-01-26

I became interested in "Pretty Boy Floyd" when I found out his mother was distantly related to my family and I was researching my family. He was raised 25 miles from where I live until his family moved to Oklahoma. There was mention of the town in the book and some of the mischief he got in to. The house they lived in still stands. I was able to use some of the information from the book to go in my family tree. The book was very well written and seemed to be accurate in the account given of his life. I felt like I had known him from the reading of this book and feel he was unjustly killed at the end. His mother was treated unfairly about the way the funeral took care of his body. The pictures in the book of his family in the younger days were very good pictures. I didn't especially care for the ones at the funeral home where he was more or less put on display. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys the history and hardships that occurred during the early part of the century.I am sure I will read this book again. It was hard to put down when I read it the first time.

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An unexpected literary masterpiece
Thanks, Diana and Larry
It's ok
FUNNY AND SAD...AND HIGHLY ENTERTAINING READ!!!
"Pretty Boy Floyd" keeps you wondering!!!!

Pretty Boy Floyd
Larry McMurtry , and Diana Ossana
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The time is 1925. The place, St. Louis, Missouri. Charley Floyd, a good-looking, sweet-smiling country boy from Oklahoma, is about to rob his first armored car.

Written by Pulitzer Prize winner Larry McMurtry and his writing partner, Diana Ossana, Pretty Boy Floyd traces the wild career of this legendary American folk hero, a young man so charming that it's hard not to like him, even as he's robbing you at gunpoint. From the bank heists and shootings that make him Public Enemy Number One to the women who love him, from the glamour-hungry nation that worships him to the G-men who track Charley down, Pretty Boy Floyd is both a richly comic masterpiece and an American tragedy about the price of fame and the corruption of innocence.

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An unexpected literary masterpiece.......2007-01-12

The adventures of a doomed hero that makes Bonnie and Clyde tame and the impostor seem honest
kept me interested.
In the 30's era where poverty in a wealthy nation was common being a hero seemed to involve having the nerve to take what you wanted.
Being a bad boy gangster who robbed banks became a folk hero to the downtrodden.
Our own has rapping gangsters of a different color and they have become heroes to a new generation of the hopeless.
This book is well written and like "Zoot Suit" makes you feel like you are there
beside the characters.
It was the comparison to Clive Cussler's ersatz hero Dirk Pitt
that made me realize that this was a gem of a historical novel.

Thanks, Diana and Larry.......2006-07-11

What a breath of fresh air. From the opening scene I was back in McMurtry country (language-wise) - an easy flowing style that is comforting and hypnotic.

It's ok.......2005-11-28

The dialog is stilted, and the plot seems to repeat itself over and over...rob bank, spend time with wife/girlfriends, someone dies. Repeat. But, it was well written and there was some interest in the characters.

FUNNY AND SAD...AND HIGHLY ENTERTAINING READ!!!.......2005-08-09

I don't understand the review by the (supposed) professor...because I don't think he understood this is a work of FICTION. Though it's loosely based upon an historical outlaw, it is a story told by FICTION WRITERS. It was funny, sad, full of colorful, clever, original dialogue, that made me feel as if I knew these characters inside and out. Pretty Boy was considered a folk hero in the late twenties and thirties, professor sir. Read the novel in that context. I think that was the point of the authors--that this was a time and place they wanted to capture with their imaginations, to bring to life for those of us who weren't alive then (and to entertain those who were). It was a rough time, people were poor, hungry, the banks were the enemy because they put entire families out on the streets, with nothing. There was no welfare, no homeless shelters. It was a wild, rough time. I gave this book to my grandpa (a fine, upstanding man if there ever was one), who remembered Pretty Boy Floyd from his own childhood, and he LOVED it!!! If anything, this novel, by the end, shows us how a wrong turn in the road of life can change the course of our entire future...and how hard it is to ever go back...give it a chance, I don't think you'll be disappointed!!!!!

"Pretty Boy Floyd" keeps you wondering!!!!.......2005-04-01

This book i have not read all the way yet, but so far it has kept my eyes on it.This book also keeps me laughing at all the crazy things that the people do in this book its just histerical to me. Like when Charley had to hold his pants together so his "ass" wouldn't fall out!That was just so funny to me, and its also crazy how the judge has a wife but loves another woman. There is all sorts of crazy things that the characters do in this book which will keep you reading it, cause you never know what one of them is going to do next. This is the book you want to read if your wanting to laugh at what crazy hicks do and say,all the time! If you get this you will definatley be interested, cause i sure was! Hope you like how it turns out!

Public Enemy Number One: Pretty Boy Floyd (Americas Most Wanted)

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Public Enemy Number One: Pretty Boy Floyd (Americas Most Wanted)
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AMERICAN BANDITS. A Biographical History of the Nation's Outlaws -- From the Days of the James Boys, the Youngers, the Jennings, the Dalton Gang and Billy the Kid, Down to the Modern Bandits of Our Own Day, Including Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, and Others.

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AMERICAN BANDITS. A Biographical History of the Nation's Outlaws -- From the Days of the James Boys, the Youngers, the Jennings, the Dalton Gang and Billy the Kid, Down to the Modern Bandits of Our Own Day, Including Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, and Others.
Anthony. Gish
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Binding: Hardcover
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American bandits;: A biographical history of the nation's outlaws--from the days of the James Boys, the Youngers, the Jennings, the Dalton Gang and Billy ... Dillinger, "Pretty Boy" Floyd, and others
Anthony Gish
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Bandit Kings, The: From Jesse James to Pretty Boy Floyd

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Bandit Kings, The: From Jesse James to Pretty Boy Floyd
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A highly entertaining, illustrated look at the bad guys who robbed banks, trains, and stagecoaches--and who sometimes became American folk heroes--from the days of gangs on horseback roving and wielding Colts and Winchesters to the era of the clutch-popping Tommy-gunners. 120 black-and-white photographs.

Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd : In His Own Words from the Other Side

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Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd : In His Own Words from the Other Side
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It was a warm fall day when the young man came out of the woods. He had been on his feet for 48 hours and found himself cold, hungry, and alone. He had met a kind woman that day, who was willing to give him a meal, which, he said, was fit for a king. Before he could leave, he found that he was running for his life. The Feds and local police were after him for a crime he did not commit. He ran across that corn stubble field trying to make it to the trees in the distance, but, as fate would have it, his life ended that day. He was shot and killed as he sat wounded on the ground, unarmed and alone. He received no trial, no judge, no jury. Pretty Boy Floyd was dead. Maybe he has moved on to another dimension, but could he be as close as my outstretched hand? Yes, and this is his story from the other side.

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A Worthwhile Read.......2005-12-27

Written in a chatty, conversational manner. Reading this book is similar to sitting down and listening to a storyteller weave her yarn. A quick read, this book is engrossing and difficult to put down. The author tells the story of the last hours of Pretty Boy Floyd from a different point of view- not the one from the FBI's most wanted point of veiw. That we are a product of our own mind and also how others view us- but it is never too late to change or to be forgiven.

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The Face of Death
Mark Bishop and Omus Sours
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Release Date: 2006-07-06

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A fascinating series of stories and commentaries that chronicle the history of crime in United States, from the roots of the Mafia and big city gangs to Bonnie and Clyde.

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