Voices From Alcatraz. The Authentic Inside Story Of The Urschel Kidnapping

E. E. KIRKPATRICK

Publication: The Naylor Company,1947, San Antonio

First edition thus. 8vo. Inscribed on the front free fly leaf and signed by the author. This book is a re-issue of "Crimes' Paradise" of 1934 with a new title and a new Prologue that replaces the original Introduction. Red cloth, titles printed in black on the front cover and spine, xii, 145 pp., frontispiece, prologue, illustrated mostly from photographs, portraits, maps, epilogue.

The story of the 1933 kidnapping of millionaire Charles F. Urschel in Oklahoma who was taken to a farm in Wise County, Texas, while the perpetrators negotiated. His kidnappers included Machine Gun Kelly, Harvey Bailey, and other well-known criminals of the era who were soon captured and served life sentences on Alcatraz.

Very good copy in dust jacket with light wear to the spine ends, corners and extremities.