Halper, Albert

The Chicago crime book / edited by Albert Halper. - Cleveland : The World Publishing Company, ©1967. - 521 p. : ill., plates ; 24 cm. - 343(73) .

With hard-and supercover

Cont.: The life, times, and end of Dion O'Banion / Herbert Asbury -- Defense fund shakedowns for Scalisi and Anselmi / Walter Noble Burns -- The koker is wild / Art Cohn -- The case of Roger Touhy / Milton Mayer -- The St. Valentine's Day massacre / John H. Lyle -- The short, sweet martyrdom of Jake Lingle / Kenneth Allsop -- The last days of Dillinger / John Toland -- The Alphonse Capone case / Francis X. Busch -- Nightmare castle / Charles Boswell and Lewis Thompson -- The Luetgert case / Matthew W. Pinkerton -- The ragged stranger / George Murray -- The Loeb-Leopold case / Clarence Darrow -- The Wynekoop case / Craig Rice -- The other man / Edward D. Radin -- Mama's boy / John Flannegan -- The Peacock case / Leroy F. McHugh -- Cops and robbers / John Bartlow Martin -- The unmasking of Paul "The Waiter" Ricca / Louis Sidran -- The charmed life of Tony Accardo -- A burglar's confession / Robert Wiedrich -- How an informer traded Mob secrets for his life / Sandy Smith -- The Goof Ball Kids / William Braden -- The Manny Skar murder / George Murray -- How the Mob controls Chicago / Bill Davidson.


Crime and criminals--Illinois--Chicago--Case studies
Murder--Illinois--Chicago--Case studies

343(73)