The Elusive Purple Gang

The Elusive Purple Gang: Detroit’s Kosher Nostra is a concise history of the infamous Purple Gang—one of America’s most notorious and violent Prohibition gangs. The Purple Gang was the only Jewish gang in the United States to dominate the rackets of a major American city. From their meteoric rise to the top of Detroit’s underworld to their ultimate demise, this book is an episodic account of the Purple Gang’s corrosive pursuit of wealth and their inevitable plunge towards self-destruction.