GANGSTER WOMEN AND THEIR CRIMINAL WORLD

The history of gangsters' molls and mob queens if you have an eye for lurid detail, discover here the motivation of women in a world of ill-gotten gains, glamour, excitement and love. J. Edgar Hoover once described 'gun molls' as the Press called them, as more dangerous to society than the gangsters with whom they ran. The book studies women who fell for gangsters throughout the 1930s and beyond, from harbouring criminals to life on the run in the heady days of the flapper era, abandoning everything for love. Discover the life stories of Bonnie Parker from the infamous Bonnie and Clyde double act; Virginia Hill, the glamorous girlfriend of Bugsy Siegel who died mysteriously; Evelyn Frechette, who was charged with harbouring murderous mobster John Dillinger; and Vi Mathis, the partner of Kansas City massacre gunman Verne Miller. With photographs and fingerprints and one of three women kept apart and deprived of food and sleep by federal agents desperate to get them to reveal the whereabouts of their gangster boyfriends, one of them newly pregnant. 158 pages, illus., new full price paperback.