Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #950335 in Books
• Published on: 2008-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 320 pages

Synopsis
"I didn't have anything better to do. That's why I went around bumping off the cops." So said Francis 'Two-Gun' Crowley after shooting it out with dozens of policemen in, arguably, the most spectacular siege in New York City's history.Crowley was just one of a vast number of outlaws - male and female - who terrorized New York in the years between the World Wars. It was a period of lawlessness unprecedented in American history - including the gun-slinging old West."Bad Seeds in the Big Apple", the first book of its kind, presents an unparalleled look at the bandits, gunmen, and desperados of Prohibition- and Depression-era New York - including jewel thief extraordinaire Richard Reese Whittmore, extortion queen Vivian Gordon, and dozens of others.

Customer Reviews

Hoped for more imagery
I bought this book hoping to get a single continuous text with lots of imagery throughout the pages, which is why I've only given 3 stars. What the book actually contains is a series of short, fairly detailed accounts of the many individual characters and gangs in and around New York at the time. There are a few pages in the middle of the book with imagery but that's all. Moreover, I think the writing style may not be what people are looking for in this book - it is quite factual and straight-forward and doesn't really take the opportunity to paint a picture of the atmosphere of 20s New York. Instead it will tell you, for instance, what John Dillinger actually did. . . what the police did about it. . . and what Dillinger said at his sentencing.