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| Author | : Larry McMurtry |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 386 |
| Release | : 2010-06-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1439129681 |
The time is 1925. The place, St. Louis, Missouri. Charley Floyd, a good-looking, sweet-smiling country boy from Oklahoma, is about to rob his first armored car. Written by Pulitzer Prize–winner Larry McMurtry and his writing partner, Diana Ossana, Pretty Boy Floyd traces the wild career of the legendary American folk hero Charley Floyd, a young man so charming that it's hard not to like him, even as he's robbing you at gunpoint. From the bank heists and shootings that make him Public Enemy Number One to the women who love him, from the glamour-hungry nation that worships him to the G-men who track Charley down, Pretty Boy Floyd is both a richly comic masterpiece and an American tragedy about the price of fame and the corruption of innocence.
| Author | : Jeffery S. King |
| Publisher | : Kent State University Press |
| Total Pages | : 278 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780873386500 |
Charles Arthur Floyd, aka Pretty Boy Floyd (1904-1934), was one of the last so-called Robin Hood outlaws. He engaged in numerous bank-robbing exploits across the Midwest until federal agents and local police shot him down near East Liverpool, Ohio, on October 22, 1934. This detailed account of his life, crimes and death makes extensive use of FBI reports, government records, local newspapers and contemporary journalistic accounts.
| Author | : Gary D. Courtney |
| Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
| Total Pages | : 366 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1425995888 |
Carl Janaway - The Smartest Bandit of the Cookson Hills Last Surviving Bank Robber of the 1930's, Builder of getaway cars for "Pretty Boy" Floyd, Nursemaid to Al Capone in Alcatraz Prison. by Gary D. Courtney The life, times, and character of one of the most elusive gangsters of the 1930's era, who survived by going straight after prison and becoming an upstanding citizen. Based upon the author's month-long museum exhibit of Carl Janaway's possessions and story, which filled the John Vaughn Library lobby at Northeastern State University. Famous Sheriff Grover Bishop, who killed more men (17) than Wyatt Earp, chased Carl Janaway over 3,000 miles, and couldn't catch him. Carl's wife was also a bank robber, called the "Blonde Bandit", of rough and rowdy Vian, Oklahoma. Janaway spent time in Alcatraz Prison with some of the deadliest gangsters of the time.
| Author | : Michael Wallis |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 545 |
| Release | : 2011-05-17 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0393338185 |
Presents the life of one of America's most notorious criminals, describing "Pretty Boy" Floyd's coming of age in poverty, his descent into petty crime and bootlegging, his stormy marriage, murders, jail terms, and violent death.
| Author | : Sue L. Hamilton |
| Publisher | : ABDO & Daughters |
| Total Pages | : 38 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780939179633 |
An account of the bank robberies and killings by "Pretty Boy" Floyd and his death by FBI agents.
| Author | : Bryan Burrough |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 644 |
| Release | : 2009-04-29 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 110103274X |
In Public Enemies, bestselling author Bryan Burrough strips away the thick layer of myths put out by J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI to tell the full story—for the first time—of the most spectacular crime wave in American history, the two-year battle between the young Hoover and the assortment of criminals who became national icons: John Dillinger, Machine Gun Kelly, Bonnie and Clyde, Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, and the Barkers. In an epic feat of storytelling and drawing on a remarkable amount of newly available material on all the major figures involved, Burrough reveals a web of interconnections within the vast American underworld and demonstrates how Hoover’s G-men overcame their early fumbles to secure the FBI’s rise to power.
| Author | : Robert Unger |
| Publisher | : Andrews McMeel Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Kansas City (Mo.) |
| ISBN | : 9780836227734 |
Using the original eighty-nine volumes of FBI case file, journalist/scholar Unger reveals what really happened on that June day in 1933. He describes how the FBI turned the massacre case into a witch hunt for "Pretty Boy" Floyd and Adam Richetti, both of whom paid with their lives. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
| Author | : David Grann |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 146 |
| Release | : 2018-09-04 |
| Genre | : True Crime |
| ISBN | : 0525566066 |
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a mesmerizing collection of true-crime stories that includes "The Old Man and the Gun"—the inspiration for the movie starring Robert Redford and Sissy Spacek, along with two other riveting tales. "The Old Man and the Gun" is the incredible story of a bank robber and prison escape artist who modeled himself after figures like Pretty Boy Floyd and who, even in his seventies, refuses to retire. "True Crime" follows the twisting investigation of a Polish detective who suspects that a novelist planted clues in his fiction to an actual murder. And "The Chameleon" recounts how a French imposter assumes the identity of a missing boy from Texas and infiltrates the boy's family, only to soon wonder whether he is the one being conned. In this mesmerizing collection, David Grann shows why he has been called a "worthy heir to Truman Capote" and "simply the best narrative nonfiction writer working today," as he takes the reader on a journey through some of the most intriguing and gripping real-life tales from around the world. Look for David Grann’s latest bestselling book, The Wager!
| Author | : Elmore Leonard |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Total Pages | : 399 |
| Release | : 2009-10-13 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 006182786X |
The undisputed master of the crime novel strikes again with this powerfully entertaining story, set in 1920s Oklahoma, that introduces one of the toughest lawmen ever to come out of the west. . . . Carlos Webster was 15 the day he witnessed his first murder—but it wouldn’t be his last. It was also his first introduction to the notorious gunman, Emmet Long. By the time Carlos is 20, he’s being sworn in as a deputy United States marshal and now goes by the name Carl. As for Emmet, he’s robbing banks with his new partner, the no-good son of an oil millionaire. Carl Webster and Emmet Long may be on opposite sides of the law but their long-time game of cat and mouse will turn them both into two of the most famous names in crime and punishment.
| Author | : Martin Popoff |
| Publisher | : Voyageur Press (MN) |
| Total Pages | : 227 |
| Release | : 2014-08-15 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0760345465 |
"An oral history and timeline of the popular 1980s heavy metal subgenre, including its prehistory and decline, profusely illustrated with relevant photographs and memorabilia"--
