| Contents |
Bonnie and Clyde slept here: on the trail of the Barrow Gang -- Four brothers in crime: the Newton Boys, express car and bank robbers of Uvalde -- The Southern Pacific payroll robbery in El Paso: an attempted heist, the murder of an innocent man, and an international prisoner exchange -- Becky Rogers, the flapper bandit -- The Stanton frame-up: killing blameless men for a bounty -- The Santa Claus Bank Robbery -- Captain Charlie and the Rum King of San Antonio -- The Urschel kidnapping: Machine Gun Kelly's foray into Texas -- The Texas and Pacific mail robbery in Fort Worth: robbery, cold-blooded murder, and incarceration on Alcatraz -- The unsolved murder of Frank Nand Singh: immigrant smuggling on the Mexican border in the 1930s -- The Post morphine ring: dope dealing at the edge of the Caprock -- The greatest medical charlatan of them all: Dr. John R. Brinkley and his empire of fraud in Del Rio -- High stakes gambling underground at Top O'Hill Terrace -- Bascom Giles: bribery at the highest levels in the Texas General Land Office -- The Houston Police dope scandal: selling heroin back to the dealers -- Two brothers and gaming over Gulf waters: the end of the gangster era in Texas. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2010054349 |
| ISBN | 9781603442589 (flexbound : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1603442588 (flexbound : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781603444071 (e-book) |
| ISBN | 1603444076 (e-book) |
