Prince of Crime (John Morgan)

Category :  biography

English

Format :  hardcover

202 pages

ISBN :  0-8128-3050-4

Publisher :  Stein and Day 1985

Edition :  1st

Dimension :  235x158x24mm

Weight :  459g

Condition :  very good

Dust Jacket Condition :  very good

Book Summary : 

Murray Humphreys was Al Capone's sucessor as Chicago's Public Enemy Number One. Better known as "Murray the Hump" and "Murray the Camel,"he was, according to John Morgan, America's most influential gangster.
Humphreys, the son of Welsh immigrants, a dapper, elegant, good-looking man, a "gentleman" among thugs, was one of the few gangsters of the period not of Italian origin.
In the rise of Al Capone, Humphreys quickly became his trusted gunman and extornionist. He also had business acumen and extraordinary legal and political flair.
He chose as his motto, "Love thy crooked neighbor as you love thy crooked self." And when he died it was of a most unnatural cause : a heart attack.
Here then is the first full story of a master criminal whose exploits are largely unknown because he wanted it that way.