The Bobbed Haired Bandit : : A True Story of Crime and Celebrity in 1920s New York / / Andrew Mattson, Stephen Duncombe.
Ripped straight from the headlines of the Jazz Age, The Bobbed Haired Bandit is a tale of flappers and fast cars, of sex and morality. In the spring of 1924, a poor, 19-year-old laundress from Brooklyn robbed a string of New York grocery stores with a “baby automatic,” a fur coat, and a fashionable...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2006] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Cast of Characters
- part I. Woman with Gun
- part II. Get Girl Bandit Dead or Alive
- part III. Mystery of the Bobbed-Haired Bandit
- part IV. Gunmiss, Roused, Shoots Man
- part V. Child of Misfortune
- part VI. End of a Thriller
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index
- About the Authors