THE DRY AND LAWLESS YEARS The Crusade Against Public Enemies and Corrupt Officials in Chicago.

Hardback, 1st US edn. The Time: Prohibition in the roaring 1920s; The Place: Metropolitan Chicago where overnight gangland mobs skilled in murder, crime and violence sprang into existence and warred for prohibition profits; The Man: Judge John Lyle who dared stand up to the brazen hoodlum mobs...who issued the first Public Enemy warrants for the arrest of the underworld czars. Illus., Index. 311pp. 8vo. h/back. Vg. in Vg. frayed and chipped dw.