Richard J. Shmelter
Chicago Assassin: The Life and Legend of 'Machine Gun' Jack McGurn and the Chicago Beer Wars of the Roaring Twenties
RICHARD J. SHMELTER is a writer and researcher specializing in sports and American crime history from the 1890s to the 1940s, especially the Prohibition era. He is a member of the North American branch of the International Association of Crime Writers and the American Crime Writers League. The author of The Browns: Cleveland's Team, he lives in Sagamore Hills, Ohio.