The Purple Gang: Organized Crime in Detroit 1910-1945
A Research, Crime, True Crime book. I really enjoyed this book, mainly because I had previously thought of Chicago and New York as the centers...
The Purple Gang was a loosely organized confederation of mobsters who dominated the Detroit underworld and whose tentacles reached across the country. Beginning in the Prohibition Era, the Purple Gang prevailed in distilling alcohol and running liquor from Canada, kidnapping, and labor racketeering. This is the hitherto untold story of the rise and fall of one of American's most notorious criminal groups. In an era resembling the Wild West when post World War I America groped for identity, chaos was the rule. And in Detroit's underworld, the Purple Gangsters were the rulers.
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- Pages: 214 pages
- ISBN: 9781569801475 / 1569801479
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I've been fascinated with organized crime, primarily during the prohibition era, and primarily with Chicago. I was interested to learn about the role of the Purple Gang in this era and its connections to Chicago organized crime. This book provided a lot of information that was new to me. I did find it somewhat difficult to read in the... bugger all spelling errors and a very well written and in depth book. thoroughly enjoyed this great read. I really enjoyed this book, mainly because I had previously thought of Chicago and New York as the centers of organized crime, but Detroit was quite nasty also. The Purple Gang was different in that instead of adhering to a Sicilian code, these gang members were mostly Eastern European offspring with a specialty for bootlegging Canadian...
