Book

The Purple Gang : organized crime in Detroit 1910-1945

Call Number

  • 364.1066 K219 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Fort Lee, NJ : Barricade Books, 2013.

Physical Description

xii, 214 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes

"New introduction [i.e. preface] c2013 by Paul R. Kavieff"--Title page verso.

Contents

  • Origins of the Purple Gang 1902-1919
  • The birth of the Oakland Sugar House Gang 1922-1926
  • The murder of Johnny Reid 1920-1926
  • The Milaflores Apartment Massacre 1927
  • The murder of Vivian Welch 1928
  • The Cleaners and Dyers War 1925-1928
  • The St. Valentine's Day Massacre 1928-1930
  • Bloody July 1930
  • Collingwood Manor Massacre: the era of decline 1931
  • The self-destruction 1932-1935
  • The Brothers Fleisher 1934-1940
  • Harry Millman: Last of the Purple Gang Cowboys 1931-1937
  • The murder of Warren Hooper 1945
  • The prison years 1930-1965.

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