Cumberland House Titles - True Crime

After Capone - The Life and World of Chicago Mob Boss Frank Nitti Mars Eghigian Jr. Meticulously combining previously scattered accounts with abundant fresh research, After Capone provides a comprehensive and arousing portrait of underworld boss Frank Nitti and his gang's far-reaching power emanating from Chicago in the 1930s. > MORE	Baby Face Nelson - Portrait of a Public Enemy Steven Nickel and William J. Helmer Lester Joseph Gillis—better known to the public and press of the 1930s as Baby Face Nelson—was one of a succession of public enemies beginning with John Dillinger. The main focus of this biography is on Nelson's remarkable criminal career, from sensational bank robberies and blazing gun battles up to his death at the age of twenty-five. Many misconceptions are corrected and some of the abuses of the FBI are exposed. > MORE	Bad Seeds in the Big Apple - Bandits, Killers, and Chaos in New York City, 1920-1940 Patrick Downey Bad Seeds in the Big Apple is the first book to profile New York City's notorious bandits, gunmen, and desperadoes of the Prohibition and Depression eras. > MORE
Chicago Assassin - The Life and Legend of 'Machine Gun' Jack McGurn and the Chicago Beer Wars of the Roaring Twenties Richard J. Shmelter Chicago Assassin is the story of "Machine Gun" Jack McGurn, one of the people responsible for putting much of the roar into the Roaring Twenties. > MORE	The Complete Public Enemy Almanac - New Facts and Features on the People, Places, and Events of the Gangster and Outlaw Era: 1920-1940 William Helmer and Rick Mattix Foreword by Rose Keefe Meticulously documented, lavishly detailed, exhaustively researched, and written with an eye for the truths 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. > MORE	Egan's Rats - The Untold Story of the Prohibition-era Gang that Ruled St. Louis Daniel Waugh After nearly a century, the story of Egan's Rats can finally be told: how a group of Victorian-era street punks mushroomed into a powerful force that controlled Missouri's largest city for nearly thirty years. > MORE
Eliot Ness - The Real Story (Second Edition) Paul W. Heimel Eliot Ness: The Real Story is the result of years of research, including interviews with many people who knew Ness personally. This newly revised and expanded edition draws on documents discovered since the book was self-published in 1997, including Ness's personal scrapbook detailing his career beyond anything previously reported or published. > MORE	The First Vice Lord - Big Jim Colosimo and the Ladies of the Levee Art Bilek The First Vice Lord is the story of the life and death of Big Jim Colosimo and Chicago's infamous segregated red-light district — the Levee. For the first time, the true story is told of the colorful characters who peopled the Levee from the time of the Columbian Exposition to the Roaring Twenties, clearly the most colorful period in Chicago's history. > MORE	Guns and Roses - The Untold Story of Dean O'Banion, Chicago's Big Shot Before Al Capone Rose Keefe Using information compiled from police and court documents, contemporary news accounts, and interviews with O'Banion's friends and associates, Guns and Roses covers O'Banion's rise from an Illinois farm boy to the most powerful gang boss of in early 1920s Chicago. > MORE
JFK and Sam - The Connection Between the Giancana and Kennedy Assassinations Antoinette Giancana, John Hughes, MD, and Thomas H. Jobe JFK and Sam is unique from other books on the Kennedy assassination. Written by an insider with access to key figures, it names the assassins and traces the assassination team's movements on November 22, 1963, and discusses the team leader's life, his taped confession, and his face-to-face meeting with Antoinette in the Joliet state prison where he is serving a life sentence for killing a policeman. > MORE	King of the Sunset Strip - Hangin' with Mickey Cohen and the Hollywood Mob Steve Stevens and Craig Lockwood King of the Sunset Strip is a pistol-to-the-side-of-your-head Hollywood story. Beginning with the parties, boozing, and the "good-time" macho whoring and gambling of the mob, the story takes readers down the palm-lined streets of Hollywood to meet film and entertainment giants like Frank Sinatra, Bobby Darin, Louis Prima, Robert Mitchum, and many more. > MORE	The Man Who Got Away - The Bugs Moran Story, A Biography Rose Keefe The Man Who Got Away provides the first in-depth look at the enigmatic gangster's charmed yet wacky life, from his Minnesota childhood to his rise and fall in Chicago's Prohibition-era underworld, his life as an independent outlaw in the 1930s and 1940s, and his last days in an Ohio penitentiary. > MORE
Outgunned! - True Stories of Citizens Who Stood Up to Outlaws—and Won Robert A. Waters and John T. Waters Jr. Outgunned! is the first book to describe cases of American citizens protecting themselves against criminals. Many books romanticize outlaws, but until now the role of townspeople who banded together has been given little more than passing interest. > MORE	Return Again to the Scene of the Crime - A Guide to Even More Infamous Places in Chicago Richard Lindberg The sequel to the popular bestseller Return to the Scene of the Crime. A neighborhood-by-neighborhood look at the city, it probes old mysteries and provides fascinating glimpses of notorious crime scenes. Many maps and illustrations. > MORE	Return to the Scene of the Crime - A Guide to Infamous Places in Chicago Richard Lindberg An uncensored neighborhood-by-neighborhood map to the back alleys and boulevards of Chicago where some of the most famous events of the city's criminal past occurred. > MORE
The Rise and Fall of the Dillinger Gang Jeffery S. King Utilizing FBI files, court records, prison records, local newspapers, and books as sources, Jeffery S. King provides insights into the nine major members of the Dillinger Gang. While several full-length biographies have been written about Dillinger, there are no major biographies of the other gang members. > MORE	The St. Valentine's Day Massacre - The Untold Story of the Gangland Bloodbath That Brought Down Al Capone William J. Helmer and Art Bilek The first book-length treatment of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre which challenges the commonly held assumption that Al Capone decreed the slayings to gain supremacy in the Chicago underworld. > MORE	The Starker - Big Jack Zelig, the Becker-Rosenthal Case, and the Advent of the Jewish Gangster Rose Keefe > MORE

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