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Hill, 1962. (First detailed biography of Dillinger, overshadowed by Toland’s Dillinger Days.

Largely derived from newspaper clippings.)

de Toledano, Ralph. J. Edgar Hoover, the Man in His Time. New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington

House, 1973.

Edge, L. L. Run the Cat Roads. New York: Dembner Books, 1981.

Ellis, George. A Man Named Jones. New York: Signet Books, 1963.

Fried, Albert. The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Gangster in America. Revised ed. New York: Columbia

University Press, 1993.

Friedman, Lawrence M. Crime and Punishment in American History. New York: Basic Books,

1993.

Gardner, Ruth Dickerson. Lunch at Boney’s Mound: A Portrait of Family and Friends. Privately

published, 1997. (Lovingly produced family portrait of the LaPorte-Wanetka families.)

Gentry, Curt. J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets. New York: W. W. Norton, 1991. (Superb

Hoover biography.)

Girardin, Russell G., with William Helmer. Dillinger: The Untold Story. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University, 1994. (Girardin’s manuscript, augmented by Helmer’s excellent footnotes, sheds much new light on Dillinger’s final weeks.)

Haley, J. Evetts. Robbing Banks Was My Business. Canyon, Tex.: Palo Duro Press, 1973. (Harvey Bailey’s biography. Though Bailey’s memory is spotty in places, Haley’s book is one of only two in which Depression-era outlaws tell their side of the story.)

Hamilton, Floyd. Public Enemy No. 1. Dallas, Tex.: Acclaimed Books/International Prison Ministry, 1978.

Helmer, William, with Rick Mattix. Public Enemies: America’s Criminal Past, 1919-1940. (An invaluable almanac-style overview of the War on Crime and the 1920s by two leading amateur historians.)

Hinton, Ted, with Larry Grove. Ambush: The Real Story of Bonnie and Clyde. Bryan, Tex.: Shoal Creek, 1979.

Hoover, J. Edgar. Persons in Hiding. Boston: Little, Brown, 1938.

Illman, Harry R. Unholy Toledo: The True Story of Detroit’s Purple-Licavoli Gang’s Take-Over of an Ohio City. San Francisco: Polemic Press, 1985.

Jenkins, John H., and H. Gordon Frost. I’m Frank Hamer: The Life of a Texas Peace Officer.

Austin, Tex.: Pemberton Press, 1968.

Karpis, Alvin, with Bill Trent. The Alvin Karpis Story. New York: Coward-McCann & Geoghegan, 1971.

Karpis, Alvin, with Robert Livesey. On the Rock. Don Mills, Ontario: Musson/General, 1980.

King, Jeffrey S. The Life and Death of Pretty Boy Floyd. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press,

1998.

Kirchner, L. R. Triple Cross Fire!: J. Edgar Hoover & the Kansas City Union Station Massacre.

Kansas City, Mo.: Janlar Books, 1993. (Avoid.)

———. Robbing Banks: An American History, 1831-1999. Rockville Centre, N.Y.: Sarpedon, 2000.

Kirkpatrick, E. E. Crimes’ Paradise: The Authentic Inside Story of the Urschel Kidnapping. San

Antonio, Tex.: Naylor, 1934.

Kobler, John. Capone: The Life and World of Al Capone. New York: DaCapo Press, 1992.

Larsen, Lawrence H., and Nancy J. Hulston. Pendergast! Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri

Press, 2000.

Louderback, Lew. The Bad Ones: Gangsters of the ’30s and Their Molls. Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett, 1968.

Maccabee, Paul. John Dillinger Slept Here: A Crook’s Tour of Crime and Corruption in St. Paul, 1920-1936. St. Paul, Minn.: Minnesota Historical Press, 1995. (One of the very best books on St. Paul’s role in the War on Crime, and a personal favorite.)

Milner, E. R. The Lives and Times of Bonnie and Clyde. Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1996.

Newton, Willis, and Joe Newton, with Claude Stanush and David Middleton. The Newton Boys: Portrait of an Outlaw Gang. Austin, Tex.: State House, 1994.

Nickel, Steven, and William J. Helmer. Baby Face Nelson: Portrait of a Public Enemy. Nashville: Cumberland House, 2002.

Owens, Ron. Oklahoma Justice: The Oklahoma City Police: A Century of Gunfighters, Gangsters

and Terrorists. Paducah, Ky.: Turner Publishing, 1995.

Parker, Emma, and Nell Barrow Cowan, with Jan Fortune. Fugitives: The Story of Clyde Barrow

and Bonnie Parker. Dallas, Tex.: Ranger Press, 1934. Reprinted by Signet, 1968. (Still