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True Crime

Hundreds of books, magazine articles (including many true-detectives magazines from the thirties), and newspaper stories (from the Tribune, Herald and Examiner, Daily News and other Chicago papers of the day) have been consulted in researching True Crime, the companion volume to my earlier novel True Detective (1983). I am particularly indebted to the anonymous authors of the Federal Writers Project volumes on the states of Illinois (1939) and Wisconsin (1941). Also, a few other books deserve singling out: The People Talk (1940), Benjamin Appel; The FBI Nobody Knows (1964), Fred J. Cook; Ten Thousand Public Enemies (1935), Courtney Ryley Cooper; Daddy Danced the Charleston (1970), Ruth Corbett; The Real Ma Barker (1970), Mirian Allen deFord; Captive City (1969), Ovid Demaris; The Director (1975), Ovid Demaris; Dining in Chicago (1931), John Drury; Tune in Yesterday (1976), John Dunning; Line Up Tough Guys (1966), Ron Goulart; Persons in Hiding (1938), J. Edgar Hoover; It’s a Racket (1929), Gordon L. Hostetter and Thomas Quinn Beesley; The Alvin Karpis Story (1971), Alvin Karpis with Bill Trent; Chicago: Growth of a Metropolis (1969), Harold M. Mayer and Richard C. Wade; The Bad Ones (1968), Lew Louderback; The Legacy of Al Capone (1975), George Murray; G-Men, Hoover’s FBI in American Popular Culture (1983), Richard Gid Powers; American Agent (1936), Melvin H. Purvis; The Devil’s Emissaries (1969), Myron J. Quimby; No Man Stands Alone (1957), Barney Ross and Martin Abramson; The Verse by the Side of the Road (1965), Frank Rowsome, Jr.; Syndicate City (1954), Alson J. Smith; The Stolen Years (1959), Roger Touhy; Chicago Uncensored (1965), Irle Waller.

When all the debts have been paid, or at least acknowledged, one remains: this book could not have been written without the love, help and support of my wife, Barbara Collins—Nate’s mother.

Photo Credit: Bamford Studio

Max Allan Collins has earned fifteen Private Eye Writers of America “Shamus” nominations, winning for his Nathan Heller novels, True Detective and Stolen Away, and receiving the PWA life achievement award, the Eye. His graphic novel, Road to Perdition, which is the basis of the Academy Award-winning film starring Tom Hanks, was followed by two novels, Road to Purgatory and Road to Paradise. His suspense series include Quarry, Nolan, Mallory, and Eliot Ness, and his numerous comics credits include the syndicated Dick Tracy and his own Ms. Tree. He has written and directed four feature films and two documentaries. His other produced screenplays include “The Expert,” an HBO World Premiere. His coffee-table book The History of Mystery received nominations for every major mystery award and Men’s Adventure Magazines won the Anthony Award. Collins lives in Muscatine, Iowa, with his wife, writer Barbara Collins. They have collaborated on seven novels and numerous short stories, and are currently writing the “Trash ‘n’ Treasures” mysteries.

Table of Contents

1 T HE T RAVELING S ALESMAN

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

2 T HE F ARMER’S D AUGHTER

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

Chapter 36

Chapter 37

Chapter 38

Chapter 39

Chapter 40

Chapter 41

3 W HERE THE B ODIES A RE B URIED

Chapter 42

I O WE T HEM O NE

A BOUT THE A UTHOR