1920s
1920s crime
1929
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Al Capone
American boys
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Bugs Moran
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Chicago crime
Chicago gangs
crime of the century
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February 14 1929
Italian mob
machine-gun murders
St. Louis
St. Valentine's Day Massacre
twentieth-century crime
William J. Helmer
Product details
- ISBN 9781630264659
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 14 Sep 2006
- Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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The machine-gun murders of seven men on the morning of February 14, 1929, by killers dressed as cops became the gangland "crime of the century." Or so the story went. Since then it has been featured in countless histories, biographies, movies, and television specials. 'The St. Valentine's Day Massacre,' however, is the first book-length treatment of the subject, and it challenges the commonly held assumption that Al Capone ordered the slayings to gain supremacy in the Chicago underworld.
