Crimes' Paradise. The Authentic Inside Story Of The Urschel Kidnapping

E. E. KIRKPATRICK

Publication: The Naylor Company, 1934, San Antonio

First edition. 8vo. Light green cloth, titles printed in black on front cover and spine, xiv [4], 252 pp., frontispiece, introduction, illustrated mostly from photographs, portraits, maps, epilogue. The riveting story of the brazen 1933 kidnapping of Oklahoma businessman, Charles F. Urschel, and his friend, Walter Jarrett by notorious gunmen, George “Machine-Gun Kelly” and Harvey Bailey. Former owner's inked name on front free fly leaf, spine faded, book slightly cocked, else a good copy in price-clipped dust jacket with wear to the spine end and corners and small chips and wear to the extremities. Very scarce.