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Rose Keefe

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Rose Keefe is the author of three vintage True Crime books. Guns and Roses- the Untold Story of Dean O'Banion, Chicago's Big Shot Before Al Capone and The Man Who Got Away: the Bugs Moran Story were based on interviews with surviving relatives of Dean O'Banion and George 'Bugs' Moran as well as such primary resources as arrest records, FBI files, and confidential investigator reports. As part of her research for her third book, The Starker: Big Jack Zelig and the Becker-Rosenthal Case of 1912, she interviewed the descendants of Jack Zelig, Charles Becker, Dopey Benny Fein, and Abe Shoenfeld. She is currently at work on the biography of Dopey Benny Fein, New York's first real labor racketeer.

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Duel with the Devil

No sooner had Manhattan's municipal water system come into effect when one of its wells became a crime scene.

In January 1800, the body of Gulielma ‘Elma' Sands was found floating in the frozen water of a well in Lispenard's Meadow, a marshy terrain near modern day Soho. She had left her Greenwich Street boardinghouse on December 22, 1799 after telling confidants that she intended to be marrie Read more of this blog post »

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	Guns and Roses: The Untold Story of Dean O'Banion, Chicago's Big Shot Before Al Capone 4.29 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Starker: Big Jack Zelig, the Becker-Rosenthal Case, and the Advent of the Jewish Gangster by Rose Keefe (Goodreads Author), Patrick Downey (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.22 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Man Who Got Away: The Bugs Moran Story: A Biography by Rose Keefe (Goodreads Author), Rick Mattix (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.21 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Public Enemy Almanac: New Facts and Features on the People, Places, and Events of the Gangster and Outlaw Era, 1920-1940 by William Helmer, Rick Mattix (Goodreads Author), Rose Keefe (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.62 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fighting Parson: The Life of Reverend Leslie Spracklin (Canada’s Eliot Ness) 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bessie Perri: Queen of the Bootleggers 4.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Holes in the Darkness by Rose Keefe (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Michael Poeltl (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bate Auto Murder it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	[The Man Who Got Away: The Bugs Moran Story: A Biography] [By: Rose Keefe] [March, 2005] 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Golden Age of Waterfalling 1889-1905 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.”
― David Gerrold, A Matter for Men

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“The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews. ”
― William Faulkner

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message 1: by Chriss

Jul 05, 2009 05:28PM

Hope you like the show Rose! I wish I could have gone to Chicago to meet Art during his segment but that happened the day after mine. I did get to shoot the Tommy Gun and that was the icing on the cake for sure!!!

Chriss

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