M. Evans & Company
Pages: 282
Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-59077-521-9 • eBook • February 1981 • $13.99 • (£10.99)
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Artists, Architects, Photographers,
Biography & Autobiography / Criminals & Outlaws,
Biography & Autobiography / Historical,
History / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
Jay Robert Nash is the bestselling author of Bloodletters and Badmen, Hustlers and Con Men, and the Almanac of True Crime. He received a special Edgar Allen Poe award in 1991 for his Encyclopedia of World Crime. He lives in Wilmette, Illinois.
1. News Maniacs
2. It's a Wonderful World
3. Underworld, 1858
4. King Crime
5. Ball Park Afternoons
6. The Game's the Thing
7. The Mad Money Merchants
8. Elegant Egomania
9. Author, Author
10. The Bully Boys
Bibliography
Index
A non-stop rollicking rogue's gallery, Nash's collection of anecdotes about Chicago's most colorful citizens of an earlier era is high in entertainment value..lively reading all the way.
— Publishers Weekly