| Description |
1 online resource (394 pages) |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Cast of Characters; Part I: Woman with Gun; Part II: Get Girl Bandit Dead or Alive; Part III: Mystery of the Bobbed-Haired Bandit; Part IV: Gunmiss, Roused, Shoots Man; Part V: Child of Misfortune; Part VI: End of a Thriller; Epilogue; Notes; Index; About the Authors |
| Summary |
Ripped straight from the headlines of the Jazz Age, The Bobbed Haired Bandit is a tale of flappers and fast cars, of sex and morality. In the spring of 1924, a poor, 19-year-old laundress from Brooklyn robbed a string of New York grocery stores with a "baby automatic," a fur coat, and a fashionable bobbed hairdo. Celia Cooney's crimes made national news, with the likes of Ring Lardner and Walter Lippman writing about her exploits for enthralled readers. The Bobbed Haired Bandit brings to life a world of great wealth and poverty, of Prohibition and class conflict. With her husband Ed at her sid |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Cooney, Edward, 1899-1936.
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Cooney, Celia, 1904-1992.
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| SUBJECT |
Cooney, Celia, 1904-1992. fast (OCoLC)fst01618104 |
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Cooney, Edward, 1899-1936. fast (OCoLC)fst01618105 |
| Subject |
Robbery -- New York (State) -- New York
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Brigands and robbers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
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HISTORY -- United States -- General.
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Brigands and robbers.
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Robbery.
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New York (State) -- New York.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mattson, Andrew
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| ISBN |
9780814785201 |
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0814785204 |
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