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Books & Magazines

  • Fingerprint and Identification Magazine: Vol.14 - No.1 (1932)

  • Startling Detective Adventures: Crimson Career of Alvin Karpis (1935)

  • Startling Detective Adventures: Alvin Karpis - Ma Barker Gun Moll (1936)

  • Startling Detective Adventures: "I Was a Barker-Karpis Gang Gun Moll" Edna Murray (1936)

  • Daring Detective: Smashing the Notorious Karpis Mob (1936)

  • Real Detective: Catching Killer Karpis (1936)

  • The FBI in Action by John Jones (1957)

  • The Violent Years:An Uncensored Abridgement of American Agent by Melvin Horace Purvis (1960)

  • Men Magazine: How the FBI Trapped Gangland's Bloodiest Four (1964)

  • The Devil's Emissaries by Myron J. Quimby (1969)

  • Hoover's FBI by William W. Turner (1970)

  • Tales of the Killers #11 (1971)

  • The Sudbury Star: Weekend Magazine Vol.21 (1971)

  • Public Enemy Number One: the Alvin Karpis Story by Alvin Karpis (1972)

  • On the Rock: Twenty-Five Years in Alcatraz,the Prison Story of Alvin Karpis by Alvin Karpis & Robert Livesey (1980)

  • Real Life Crimes and How They Were Solved: Alvin Karpis,Public Enemy No.1 #52 (1992)

  • Official and Confidential: the Secret Life of J.Edgar Hoover by Anthony Summers (1993)

  • The Encyclopedia of Kidnappings by Michael Newton (2002)

  • American History Magazine: Public Enemy No. 1-The Rise and Fall of Alvin "Creepy" Karpis (2004)

  • The Complete Public Enemy Almanac: New Facts and Features on the People,Places,and Events of the Gangsters and Outlaw Era 1920-1940 by William J.Helmer (2006)

  • Letters From Alcatraz by Michael Esslinger (2008)

  • A Murder in Tulsa by Michael Koch (2008)

  • The Minnesota Road Guide to Gangster Hot Spots (2009)

  • Alcatraz: the Gangster Years by David Ward & Gene Kassebaum (2009)

  • Robbin' Banks & Killin' Cops: the Life and Crimes of Lawrence DeVol and His Association With Alvin Karpis and the Barker-Karpis Gang by Robert R.Ernst (2009)

  • The Wisconsin Road Guide to Gangster Hot Spots (2010)

  • Images of America: South Euclid by Lyndhurst Historical Society (2012)

  • The Mammoth Book of Gangs by James Morton (2012)

  • Murder & Mayhem On Ohio's Rails by Jane Ann Turzillo (2014)

  • Dead Like Lazarus (Saint Paul Gangsters,Vol.3) by Tim Mahoney (2015)

  • Ma Barker: America's Most Wanted Mother by Chris Enss & Howard Kazanjian (2016)

  • Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI 1933-34 by Bryan Burrough

  • The Encyclopedia of American Crime

Film

  • The American Gangbusters (1940)

  • Gangbusters: Alvin Karpis (1952)

  • Guns Don't Argue (1957)

  • Ma Barker's Killer Brood (1960)

  • Alcatraz History with Howard Duff (1971)

  • The FBI Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis (1974)

  • The Kansas City Massacre (1975)

  • The Private Files of J.Edgar Hoover (1977)

  • Public Enemies (1996)

  • The Escape From Alcatraz: the True Stories (1997)

  • A.K.A. Birdseye (2002)

  • Public Enemies (2009)

  • Biography: Charles Manson - Journey Into Evil

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