The Elusive Purple Gang

The Elusive Purple Gang
Author: Gregory A. Fournier
Publisher: Wheatmark, Inc.
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2019-11-29
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1627877150


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The Elusive Purple Gang: Detroit's Kosher Nostra is a concise history of one of America's most notorious Prohibition gangs. The Burnstein brothers and their associates were the only Jewish gang in the United States to dominate the rackets of a major American city. From their meteoric rise to the top of Detroit's underworld to their ultimate demise, this is an episodic account of the Purple Gang's corrosive pursuit of power and wealth and their inevitable plunge towards self-destruction.


The Elusive Purple Gang
Language: en
Pages: 220
Authors: Gregory A. Fournier
Categories: True Crime
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-11-29 - Publisher: Wheatmark, Inc.

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The Elusive Purple Gang: Detroit's Kosher Nostra is a concise history of one of America's most notorious Prohibition gangs. The Burnstein brothers and their ass
The Purple Gang
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Paul R. Kavieff
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-16 - Publisher: Barricade Books

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The Purple Gang - Detroit's ruling organised crime syndicate - became one of the most notorious gangs during the Prohibition Era. The gang was comprised mostly
Detroit's Infamous Purple Gang
Language: en
Pages: 132
Authors: Paul R. Kavieff
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

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Detroit's Infamous Purple Gang is a photographic history of one of the most notorious organized crime groups of the 20th century. The photographs chronologicall
Hitmen
Language: en
Pages: 199
Authors: Scott M. Deitche
Categories: True Crime
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-06-15 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

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From the author of the star reviewed Garden State Gangland comes an in-depth exposé on East Harlem's notorious Purple Gang whose murderous exploits became a me
Off Color
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Daniel Waugh
Categories: Bernstein, Abe
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher: In-Depth Editions, LLC

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"Those boys are tainted, off-color!" This lament from an early 20th century Detroit pushcart merchant was said to have given the Purple Gang their nickname. Off