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[ Dillinger's Women ]

Women of the 1930s Midwest Crime Wave

"Don't Call Us Molls: Women of the John Dillinger Gang"


New York: Clinton Cook Publishing Corp.
Copyright c. 2002 by Ellen Poulsen. Original Edition. 6 x 9, Paperback. 520 pages, with 85 photos and illustrations. ISBN 0-9717200-0-2. $19.95. Publication November 2002. Distributed by Independent Publishers Group (Bookstore Orders placed Toll Free at 800-888-4741 or Fax Order to 312 - 337-5985.)

Librarians who wish to order through Ingram or Independent Publishers Group may do so by requesting ISBN #0971720002.

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The author is an active member of the Combined Book Exhibit Network; Partners In Crime (PIC); and Publishers Marketing Association (PMA), and a participant in The New York Small Press Center & 2004 Chicago Gangster Convention. This site updated on January 2, 2006.

The book is in print. Any orders that go directly to the publisher via this web site will be filled within 5-7 business days.

This non-fiction book explores the collective experience of the Dillinger "gun molls." Evelyn Frechette and her contemporaries flaunted both moral and financial convention. This exciting book reveals their human qualities as viewed through relationships to John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, among others. As wives and girlfriends of the Depression-era's public enemies, they shift through continuing themes of expectation and disillusionment. Their conflicting loyalties are challenged by the unrelenting pressure of the U.S. Government to betray their men.



    Revealed for the first time:

  • Helen Gillis' morbid wish to "die with Baby Face"
  • Beth Green's ultimate sacrifice
  • Evelyn Frechette's buried sorrow
  • Harry Pierpont's death row message to Mary Kinder
  • Opal Long's letters to the incarcerated Russell Clark
  • Pat Cherrington's mysterious lust for two Dillinger gang members
  • Viola Carroll's fight for possession of Tommy Carroll's body
  • How Marie Comforti avenged Homer Van Meter's death
  • "The girl in red," Anna Sage, and her sidekick, Polly Hamilton
  • Pearl Elliott, the woman from Kokomo
  • How Jean Delaney Crompton angered Hoover with her "innocent act"


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    This book kept America working. Printed in America, at Thompson-Shore, Inc., by American craftspeople in Michigan. All cover design and typesetting services were contracted in America to U.S. taxpaying workers.

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