Gangsters and Gunmolls #4
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis anthology issue contains three crime stories as indicated on the cover: "Mara Hite—Bank-robbing murderess," which follows a woman criminal's exploits in bootlegging and her involvement with the Elkins Boys crime syndicate and their conflict with rival liquor baron Dom Romano; "Elkins Boys—Vice-lords of crime," depicting the criminal organization's bootlegging operations and internal power struggles; and "Alice Cort—Hollywood hellcat," featuring a movie starlet named Kitty Tremaire whose ambitions and connections to gangsters lead to murder and a police manhunt in a tunnel beneath Michigan Avenue.
The Elkins Boys bring big-city vice into their small town, importing criminal rackets and transforming themselves into ruthless killers—a cautionary tale that proves crime's corruption knows no zip code. Watch as three brothers rise through violence and greed, only to discover that the law's patience has limits and the bill always comes due.
Jack Long was a newspaper legman who knew everyone in Chicago—cops, politicians, and gangsters alike—but his byline never appeared in print until June 1930, when his murder made front-page news and exposed a shocking secret his colleagues never suspected. As the investigation unfolds, Long's tangled web of friendships with rival mob bosses Joe Reynold and Ted Sumner, along with his mysterious wealth and newfound power over gamblers Hoffman and Brandt, paints a portrait of a man caught between two worlds—and the deadly price of playing both sides.
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Reprinted in The Crime Machine #2 (1971), Gun Molls #[nn] (2025), Krimi Klassiker #3
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