O'Banion's Gift
- ISBN-10
- 0974477702
- ISBN-13
- 9780974477701
- Category
- Chicago (Ill.)
- Pages
- 346
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Author
- Michael O'Rourke
Description
While engaged in handling a difficult divorce suit in present-day St. Paul, lawyer Riley McReynolds becomes obsessed with tracking down the teenage girl who absconded with a large amount of money which Dion O'Banion, an Irish gangster, had stolen from Al Capone, and for which O'Banion had been executed by Capone and his associates in 1924.
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