The Purple Gang: Organized Crime in Detroit 1910-1945

by Paul Kavieff

Overview

The Purple Gang was a loosely organized confederation of mobsters who dominated the Detroit underworld and whose tentacles reached across the country. Beginning in the Prohibition Era, the Purple Gang prevailed in distilling alcohol and running liquor from Canada, kidnapping, and labor racketeering. This is the hitherto untold story of the rise and fall of one of American's most notorious criminal groups. In an era resembling the Wild West when post World War I America groped for identity, chaos was the rule. And in Detroit's underworld, the Purple Gangsters were the rulers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781569805060
Publisher:	Barricade Books, Incorporated
Publication date:	01/01/2000
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	214
Sales rank:	833,268
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Paul R. Kavieff is an engineer and historian who has devoted more than ten years to the research of crime in Detroit. He resides in a suburb of Detroit, Michigan.