Famous Gangsters #2

John Dillinger, freshly released from prison in 1933, has bigger plans than his old petty crimes—he orchestrates a jailbreak to reassemble his gang and launches a violent spree of bank robberies that makes him Public Enemy No. 1. As he grows bolder and more ruthless, his taste for fast living and loose lips among his crew draw the attention of law enforcement, setting him on a collision course with federal agents determined to bring him down. This is the story of how ambition, arrogance, and a criminal's need for the fast life catch up with him.

George Kelly seemed like just another small-time bootlegger until he met Kathy Shannon, a woman with bigger ambitions and a ruthless talent for planning—soon she's pushing him toward crime, and a machine gun becomes his calling card. As Kelly's notoriety spreads across the country, the couple escalates from bank robberies to kidnapping, setting their sights on a wealthy oil man in a scheme that draws the attention of the FBI. A tense game of cat-and-mouse unfolds as law enforcement closes in, with Kelly's paranoia and Kathy's cold calculation driving them deeper into a criminal underworld neither may escape.

Rising from petty theft to bootleg empire, "Waxie" Gordon—born Irving Wexler—finds himself caught between rival gangsters and federal agents closing in on tax evasion. When Dutch Schultz's crew begins hi-jacking his trucks, Gordon escalates the war by hiring a top hitman and striking back hard across the city, but the mob war only accelerates the T-Men's investigation. As Gordon goes on the lam to the Catskill Mountains, federal agents track him down in a desperate final confrontation that tests whether criminal cunning can outrun the law.

Michael Strong, ace private eye, finds himself the unlikely occupant of Suite No. 13 at a French Riviera hotel—a room that everyone from a mysterious Baroness to a stubborn Count suddenly insists belongs to them. When a duel with the Count goes wrong and he's arrested for murder, Strong must uncover why this particular suite has become so fiercely contested before the real killer pins the crime on him permanently.