the gangster

The collection includes both paperback and hardcover editions. Most entries are listed as paperback, with at least one title available in hardcover.

The titles span social science, biography/autobiography, and fiction/literature. Subgenres represented include criminology, criminals & outlaws, literary fiction, multi‑generation sagas, and historical accounts.

Most entries list the suggested reader age as “22 Years and Up,” so the books are generally aimed at adult readers.

Authors range from academics and investigative journalists to autobiographical insiders and novelists, offering scholarly analysis, investigative reporting, personal memoir, and fictional/autofictional storytelling.

Settings include many U.S. cities—New York (Lower East Side, Manhattan), Chicago, Cleveland, Boston, Detroit, Newark, and Philadelphia—as well as other locations such as Paris and San Francisco.

The collection includes memoir and autobiographical accounts, journalistic biographies, nonfiction/criminology studies, literary fiction, and explicit autofiction.