The St. Valentine's Day Massacre: The Untold Story of the Gangland Bloodbath That Brought Down Al Capone
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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.
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Book details
- Author
- William Helmer, Arthur Bilek
- Imprint
- Cumberland House Publishing, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- True Crime › Organized Crime
History › United States › State & Local › Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
History › United States › 20th Century - Topics
- Chicago organized crime · Prohibition era · gangland violence · Bugs Moran · 1920s America · true crime history
- ISBN-13
- 9781581825497 (Paperback)9781630264659 (Hardcover)
About the author
WILLIAM J. HELMER is the author of five books on the American gangland era, including The Complete Public Enemy Almanac, The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre and Baby Face Nelson.
Helmer earned a Bachelor of Journalism and an M.A. in History from the University of Texas at Austin, and served as a Senior Editor at Playboy in Chicago from 1969 to 1995.
When not writing, Helmer served in the U.S. Naval Reserve from 1953 to 1961, reaching the rank of Radioman First Class. That grounding in disciplined record-keeping and research shapes his rigorously documented accounts of Depression-era crime.
William lived in Boerne, Texas.