Ever notice how mug shots these days never capture that special twinkle in a suspect's eye? Just ask Michael Jackson, Nick Nolte and Glen Campbell. Well, it wasn't always that way. Once upon a time in ...

“So many women have bandit hearts.” Two pages into James Carlos Blake’s Handsome Harry, a death-row nurse tending to Harry Pierpont’s bullet-blasted body has just changed his sheets, whispered him a ...

Brandishing “guns” fashioned from soap and shoe polish, Harry Pierpont, the brains of the infamous Dillinger gang, and fellow gangster Charles Makley tried to break out of the Ohio Penitentiary on ...

In the nine years since his first novel, ”The Pistoleer,” was published, James Carlos Blake has established himself as one of the greatest chroniclers of the mythical American outlaw life. Old-time ...

More than a few curiously observant Americans will be noting the arrival of July 22, 2009, with more than passing interest. That day will mark the diamond anniversary of the death of one of the more ...

John Dillinger and three members of the “Dillinger mob” bank robbery artist, jail delivery specialists and machine gun terrorists supreme in the Midwest, were captured here yesterday afternoon and ...

This is a favorite of "Tales from the Morgue" readers that ran when StarNet's first "Morgue Lady," Elaine Raines, wrote this blog. The following article ran in the Arizona Daily Star 78 years ago ...

Blake's eighth novel, like his recent Under the Skin (2003), stars an antihero narrator in a world of Depression-era crime. As Harry Pierpont, the self-described leader of the bank-robbing Dillinger ...