Meet the Kellys (eBook)

The True Story of Machine Gun Kelly and His Moll Kathryn Thorne

Chris Enss (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
272 Seiten
Citadel Press (Verlag)
978-0-8065-4307-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Gangsters. Lovers. Legends. Meet the Kellysthe bootlegging, bank-robbing, husband-wife duo known as ';Machine Gun' Kelly and Kathyrn Thornewho masterminded one of the most infamous kidnappings in American crime. . . . How did a small-time, hip-pocket bootlegger become one of the most notorious gangsters in the country? For George ';Machine Gun' Kelly, the answer was simple: a woman. Her name was Kathryn Thorne, a charming, strong-minded beauty who had family connections in the crime worldand big ambitions for the tall, handsome bootlegger. By the time she met Kelly, she was already an experienced criminal herself, divorced twice, and ready to marry a man who could give her the posh life she always dreamed of. With that in mind, she bought Kelly his first machine gun. And the rest is history . . . George Kelly wasn't a natural-born gangster and never carried a weapon bigger than a revolver. But Kathryn changed all that. Like a mobbed-up Lady Macbeth, she pushed her husband to commit greater crimes, introducing him to her friends in the underworld and convincing him to join in a series of bank robberies. Soon, the Kellys were living large, with a house in Texas, expensive jewelry, the works. But it wasn't enough, and eventually the couple hatched a daring plot to kidnap oil tycoon Charles Urschel. Their plan worked. They collected the ransomand captured the attention of the nation, the world . . . and the FBI. A shocking story of ambition and greed, crime and punishment,Meet the Kellysoffers a fascinating portrait of a reluctant gangster named after a machine gun and a scheming moll as driven as Bonnie Parker and Ma Barker. A must-read for true crime fans.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.5.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: 1930s gangster era • American History • American women • armed robbery • Baby Face Nelson • Bank Robbers • bank robbery • Biography • bloodshed • Bonnie & Clyde • bootlegger • bootlegging • crime families • crime family • Crime Story • FBI • Folk Heroes • Gangster • gangster moll • George Kelly • Great Depression • gun moll • harrowing escapes • J. Edgar Hoover • John Dillinger • Kathryn Thorn • Kidnapping • lawlessness • machine gun • Machine Gun Kelly • manhunts • Memphis, Tennessee • Midwest USA • Murder • Nonfiction • Oklahoma • Organized Crime • Pretty Boy Floyd • Prohibition • shootouts with police and the FBI • Texas • the fbi • The Great Depression • Tommyguns • True Crime • Underworld • U.S. Dept. of Justice • Women’s history
• ISBN-10: 0-8065-4307-8 / 0806543078
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8065-4307-9 / 9780806543079