Big Bucks: The True, Outrageous Story of the Plymouth Mail Robbery . . . and How They Got Away With It

By Ernest Tidyman

Book Overview

[A] tight, well-researched, sometimes funny book about one of the crimes of the century, the motley group that pulled it off, and the assorted characters who tried to catch them. Pseudonyms are used here, but anyone with access to Boston newspaper files can figure out most of the dramatis personae in the ingenious 1962 robbery of a post office van (the feds were saving money on an armored car) heading up from Cape Cod to Boston, packed with $1.5 million in bank deposits from a big summer weekend. Not a shot was fired, the loot was never recovered and, although three people were eventually indicted, no one was convicted of the crime. - Kirkus Review

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393347168
• ISBN13: 9780393347166
• Release Date: May 1982
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

True story...

The true, outrageous story of the Plymouth Mail Robbery...and how they got away with it. Through these pages march a strange and colorful collection of Boston's cops and robbers, including Murphy the mastermind, Reno the psychotic detective, and Gina, a beautiful young woman who couldn't say no. The crime itself and the investigation that followed were in many ways more fantastic than fiction. The author takes us into the councils of the pursuers and the pursued to tell, for the first time, what really happened.