Nonetheless famed Columnist Heywood Broun, at best a timid rascal, was frightened by the book and kept awake. That Dinner at Bardolph’s does not take itself so seriously.

Always engaging in broad strokes thanks to the remarkable biography of its subject, “A Cops and Robbers Story” is at its best in the brief moments when it drills down on the particulars of ...

Crime had gone interstate, which was a new problem for the forces of law and order. The automobile gave mobility and speed to gangs of bank robbers; the machine gun gave them firepower. During the ...

So, then, why a book? “Listen, I’ve played a cop 16 years. Once I was doing a scene with a bunch of actors and I had my badge on and a guy raced over and raised his hands to me.