Public Enemies: 5 True Crime Gangster Stories from the Roaring Twenties(Vol 2)

ALSO AVAILABLE AS PART OF A BOX SET5 True Crime Gangster Stories from the Roaring TwentiesDo you like true crime stories?Public Enemies – True Crime Gangster Stories from the Roaring TwentiesFrom the era of gangsters, molls and prohibition, almost (but not quite), lost in the mists of time, these tales romp along with plenty of action and recreate the atmosphere of this exciting and dangerous era using the vernacular of the times.You’ll have heard of most of these notorious criminals, but possibly not so much about one or two of them. All of them were real, ruthless hoodlums, and all had their "15 minutes of fame", leaving trails of death and mayhem behind them. Most did not live to an old age, and those that did were probably in jail.Their escapades were daring and reckless and many paid the ultimate price in the end.Joe Masseria – The Mafia boss who ‘dodged’ bulletsNow known as the Genovese crime family, Giuseppe "Joe the Boss" Masseria became the leader of one of New York's five Mafia families after waging a bloody war to take it over. In 1922 he survived a point blank assassination attempt when two gunmen opened fire on him as he left his apartment. He miraculously evaded them without a scratch - just two bullet holes in the straw hat he wore. Superstitious mobsters dubbed him "the man who can dodge bullets" which only further enhanced his growing reputation at the time. But his luck wasn't going to last forever.....Louis “Lepke” Buchalter – The man behind Murder Inc.Based in New York City, Buchalter was a leading racketeer of the time and became the boss of the Mafia assassination gang eventually famously dubbed by the press as "Murder Inc". His organization controlled the garment, baking and trucking businesses in the city and it's thought that he and his partner had around 250 men under their command at one time, and were pulling in around US$1m per year, (equal to around 20 times that at today’s value). After being convicted of murder, he was the only prominent gang boss to eventually be executed in Sing