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Tommy Gun Winter: Jewish Gangsters, a Preacher’s Daughter, and the Trial That Shocked 1930s Boston

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    A tale of love, murder, insanity and the law. Plus two zealous newspaper reporters and a few clever detectives in 1930s Boston.
   Tommy Gun Winter” is the implausible but true story of four Bostonians who once shared the front pages with John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd and Bonnie and Clyde. One was once a beautiful minister’s daughter, another was once a graduate of MIT, and their leader was once Murt Millen – smart, persuasive and unbalanced.
   The story is told by a veteran journalist who tracks down a circle of relatives secret. 
   Millen was once the son of a successful immigrant Jewish contractor. He dreamed of changing into a race car driver, but as an alternative chose crime. He ensnared his brother, Irv, and then aeronautical engineer and ROTC officer Abe Faber. The brilliant Faber found in Millen the only person he ever loved. 
   Norma Brighton was once the 18-year-old who fled her father’s home two weeks after meeting Murt in a beachfront dance hall.
    Murt and Norma married, and three weeks later the first person died.  Then another. And then came a fatal bank robbery.  
   In an era before surveillance cameras, cell phones or computers the gang escaped clean away after Murt cut down two police officers–Francis Haddock and Forbes McLeod. There was once little evidence at the scene, eyewitnesses were unreliable, the license plate number was once fake. Police were stymied. But working the crime were a few clever detectives and two zealous newspaper reporters. What followed was once a remarkable investigation and record-setting trial where testimony from friends, circle of relatives, physicians and seventeen psychiatrists unveiled an emotional triangle gone very bad. 
  This story of an interfaith marriage, sex, insanity and bloodshed made the three men and their “red-headed gun moll” infamous. The usage of newly released state police records, trial transcripts and meticulous research, Gorenstein’s account explores the Millen, Faber, and Brighton families and introduces us to cops, psychiatrists, newspaper women and men, and extraordinary citizens caught up in the peculiar Tommy Gun Winter of 1934.

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