Monday, April 26, 2010

Memphis and Machine Gun Kelly

A nice little hometown history item appeared in The Commercial Appeal today.  Crime writer Ace Atkins based his latest novel, Infamous, on Kelly's kidnapping of a wealthy Oklahoma man and the two month, cross-country pursuit that ended with Kelly's apprehension in his (and my) hometown of Memphis.  Atkins describes Kelly as "a basically likeable gangster who never even killed anyone."

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