Famous Crimes #18

Frankie Vale claws his way up from running protection rackets in Brooklyn to become a brutal enforcer for Chicago's underworld, taking on increasingly dangerous jobs for mob boss Al Catore. When a rebellious laundry owner refuses to pay protection money, Vale's ruthless response sets him on a darker path—one that will test just how far he's willing to go to stay on top of the criminal heap.

A ruthless gang uses poison gas bombs to rob banks, jewelry stores, and fur vaults across the city—until a newspaper editor teams up with police to predict their next strike. When the crooks hit City Bank expecting an easy score, they find the law waiting instead, leading these cold-blooded thieves to face justice in the gas chamber.

The ruthless Bevins brothers—Claude and Russ—escape from prison and team up with Bugs Markle to launch a violent crime spree across the Southwest, robbing banks and leaving bodies in their wake as they evade law enforcement across four states. Dubbed "Public Enemies One and Two," the brothers prove cunning enough to slip through every trap set for them, but their luck and hideouts grow increasingly precarious as the net tightens. This is the true-crime tale of two hardened criminals whose reign of terror comes to an unforgettable end.

Mona Maris starts as a desperate girl in Depression-era Chicago slums, driven by shame and anger to steal her way into respectability—a choice that lands her in reform school at thirteen. Years later, hardened and transformed by obsession with the fashionable world she glimpsed behind bars, she emerges with a dangerous plan: to build a criminal empire built on her wits and elegance, recruiting thugs like Slic Peters to execute a series of perfectly calculated heists. But the very qualities that make her a brilliant criminal—her ruthlessness, her need for control, her inability to forgive—set her on a collision course with her own gang.