Gangsters, Swindlers, Killers, and Thieves: The Lives and Crimes of Fifty American Villains

by Lawrence Block

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195169522
• ISBN13: 9780195169522
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"