TITLE:
Gangsters, swindlers, killers, and thieves : the lives and crimes of fifty American villains / edited by Lawrence Block.
Publication Date:
2004
Publication Information:
New York : Oxford University Press,
Physical Description:
287 p. : ill.
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Summary:
Drawing on his experience in creating fictional bad guys, crime novelist Lawrence Block surveys the underside of American history through fifty of its most infamous characters. Some, like Jesse James, Bonnie Parker, and Joe Colombo, led a life of crime; others, like John Wilkes Booth and John White Webster, committed one notorious act. Some, like Pretty Boy Floyd or the elusive thief Railroad Bill, have become folk heroes, whether or not the real details of their lives matched the myths they inspired. Others, like Ed Gein and Ted Bundy, will be forever reviled.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780195169522
