KING CRIME. An English Study of America's Greatest Problem

Hardback. The author maintained, at the time of pubication, there was a criminal army of 1,000,000 operating in the USA, and that 25,000 gangsters alone had died by gunfire since Prohibition was introduced. Chapter headings include : The Birth of a Nation; Broadway Nights; The Jungle; Other Climes, Other Manners; Chicago; The Vice Lords; King Al I; Among the Racketeers; The Frontier; The City; Messalina on Broadway + much more. With Frontis. of "Big Jim" Colosimo with Dale Winter + 3 other plates, one of which features "Jake" Lingle as he lay dead in a Chicago subway where he had been gunned down on June 9, 1930. 307pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Sunned sp. o/w Vg.