The Purple Gang: Organized Crime in Detroit 1910-1945

About this book

The Purple Gang was a loosely organized confederation of mobsters who dominated the Detroit underworld and whose tentacles reached across the country. Beginning in the Prohibition Era the Purple Gang prevailed in distilling alcohol and running liquor from Canada kidnapping and labor racketeering. This is the hitherto untold story of the rise and fall of one of Americans most notorious criminal groups. In an era resembling the Wild West when post World War I America groped for identity chaos was the rule. And in Detroits underworld the Purple Gangsters were the rulers.