Bullets for Dead Hoods: An Encyclopedia of Chicago Mobsters, C. 1933

"In the early 2000's, John Corbett struck thrifter's gold in a going-out-of-business Chicago junk shop when he stumbled onto a 1933 manuscript intimately documenting the Chicago Mafia. The tone of the browned and brittled pages immediately grabbed him-sensationalistic and funny, they read like an embellished police blotter as they named names, gave addresses, and detailed crimes. Presented here in facsimile in order to capture the physicality of the type-written and annotated document, Bullets for Dead Hoods: An Encyclopedia of Chicago Mobsters, c. 1933 offers an expanded overview of the Chicago Outfit through 140 character sketches that range from the infamous-Al Capone, Big Jim Colosimo, the Everleigh Sisters-to their lesser known aiders and abetters. Whoever dared to put this testament together was clearly someone with access to information-a cop? a detective? a newspaperman? a bitter mafiosi?-but who would've risked sharing this information, and why, is a mystery that will most likely never be solved. What is left for us is a concise introduction to a particularly gripping chapter in American history that, through its details, knits Chicago together in a new way. In addition to the 1933 manuscript in facsimile (approx 200 pages/images), there will be an introduction by John Corbett; a list of all addresses and locations mentioned in the manuscript, organized according to Chicago's grid layout; and a map that shows the locations of all of the addresses mentioned"--