Charles Arthur “Pretty Boy” Floyd was only 30 years old when the FBI shot him to death in East Liverpool, Ohio.
His funeral in Oklahoma was attended by 30,000 people.
the largest in Oklahoma history.
He was killed in 1934, in the depths of the Depression,
and he had a reputation for not only robbing banks …..
… but destroying mortgage documents in those banks
and saving hundreds from losing their homes.
Steve Levi is an Alaskan writer who specializes in the Alaska Gold Rush (nonfiction) and the ‘impossible crime,’ (fiction.) An ‘impossible crime’ is one where the detective must figure out HOW the crime was committed before going after the perpetrators – like a Greyhound bus with bank robbers and hostages disappearing off the Golden Gate Bridge –THE MATTER OF THE VANISHING GREYHOUND. Steve’s books can be found at www.authormasterminds.com/steve-levi
