{"product_id":"tiger-girl-and-the-candy-kid-americas-original-gangster-couple-isbn-9780358067771","title":"Tiger Girl And The Candy Kid: America’s Original Gangster Couple","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe true Jazz Age tale of America’s first gangster couple, Margaret and Richard Whittemore\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore Bonnie and Clyde there were Tiger Girl and the Candy Kid. In the wake of world war, a pandemic, and an economic depression, Margaret and Richard Whittemore, two love-struck working-class kids from Baltimore, reached for the dream of a better life. The couple headed up a gang that in less than a year stole over one million dollars’ worth of diamonds and precious gems—over ten million dollars today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMargaret was a chic flapper, the archetypal gun moll, partner to her husband’s crimes. Richard was the quintessential bad boy, whose cunning and violent ambition allowed the Whittemores to live the kind of lives they'd only seen in the movies. Along the way he killed at least three men, until prosecutors managed a conviction. As tabloids across the country exclaimed the details of the couple’s star-crossed romance, they became heroes to a new generation of young Americans who sought their own version of freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet against the backdrop of the Roaring Twenties’ excesses, acclaimed author Glenn Stout takes us from the jailhouse to the speakeasy, from the cabarets where the couple celebrated good times to the gallows where their story finally came to an end—leaving Tiger Girl pining for a final kiss. \u003ci\u003eTiger Girl and the Candy Kid\u003c\/i\u003e is a thrilling tale of rags to riches, tragedy and infamy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis meticulously researched true crime biography brings America’s original gangster couple to vivid life, exploring:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eJazz Age True Crime:\u003c\/b\u003e The thrilling story of Margaret and Richard Whittemore, the love-struck, working-class kids who became America’s first celebrity gangster couple—before Bonnie and Clyde.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAn Iconic Flapper Gun Moll:\u003c\/b\u003e Meet Margaret, the chic and daring partner in her husband’s crimes who became the archetypal gun moll for a generation obsessed with freedom and excess.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Roaring Twenties Underworld:\u003c\/b\u003e Journey from Baltimore to the speakeasies and cabarets of New York, where the Whittemores celebrated stealing over a million dollars in diamonds and became tabloid heroes.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eMeticulously Researched History:\u003c\/b\u003e Acclaimed author Glenn Stout uses extensive historical records to paint a vivid picture of post-war America and the social forces that created outlaws out of dreamers.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\"Reported with a historian's careful research and written with a novelist's mastery of character and scene, \u003cem\u003eTiger Girl and the Candy Kid\u003c\/em\u003e is a true-crime thriller embedded with a love story, set in the intoxicating glamour of the Roaring Twenties. A fast-paced, exhilarating read, the story unfolds like cinematic noir. This book deserves a place on the shelf next to \u003cem\u003eDevil in the White City\u003c\/em\u003e as a gem of true-crime narrative nonfiction.\"\u003cstrong\u003e—Kim Cross, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e best-selling author of \u003cem\u003eWhat Stands in a Storm\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   \"Straight out of Ben Hecht by way of Damon Runyon, \u003cem\u003eTiger Girl and the Candy Kid\u003c\/em\u003e are the Adam and Eve of jazz-mad flappers and mad-dog killers. Avid and dynamic, this is Glenn Stout at his storytelling best, delivering a meticulous history with a kick like bathtub gin: Of a man and a woman fallen at the founding of modern America - that revved-up white-hot electric-chair America of sensational tabloid crime and smash-and-grab capitalism, of sudden money and sex and excess, reckless ambition and lies and violence, all of it spinning a blur - and woven now into the perfect book for our own roaring moment.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—Jeff MacGregor, \u003cem\u003eSmithsonian Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   “Compared to Tiger Girl and the Candy Kid, Bonnie and Clyde were pikers. The original gangster couple was more ruthless, more captivating, and far more clever, the inspiration for the gangster movies made in their wake. As you read Stout’s deeply researched, fast-moving account – covering a multi-year crime spree, courtroom dramas, and an unexpected denouement -- you’ll keep asking yourself: why hadn’t I heard of them before? If \u003cem\u003eTiger Girl and Candy Kid doesn’t \u003c\/em\u003ebecome a blockbuster movie, Hollywood is broken.”\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn U. Bacon, b\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Great Halifax Explosion\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   \"It’s strange what we forget. Margaret and Richard Whittemore were Jazz Age icons, their gang’s jewel heists and bank robberies the stuff of bandit legend. Chased down by detectives and time, their love-and-crime story was lost to all but the Underworld—until Glenn Stout brought their exploits back to vivid life in this shining, meticulous book. In a way, Stout’s fine-eyed attention is one last score for Tiger Girl and the Candy Kid. Nobody knew better the value of a professional.\"\u003cstrong\u003e—Chris Jones, author of \u003cem\u003eOut of Orbit\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   \"\u003cem\u003eTiger Girl and the Candy Kid\u003c\/em\u003e brings the Roaring Twenties to life. With his meticulous research and vivid writing, Glenn Stout captures the era’s perverse version of the American Dream, in all of its excesses and envy. Stout imbues century-old jewelry robberies with heart-stopping suspense. Beyond that, he shows how his protagonists birthed the archetypes of the bad boy gangster and the gun moll, and how the breathless coverage of their crimes created the true crime genre.\"\u003cstrong\u003e—Greg Hanlon, \u003cem\u003ePeople\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   \"This is a get-away car of a book -- you dive in and hold on tight and trust the driver as the tires burn, the police sirens wail in the distance, and all that 1920s Americana rushes by outside.\"\u003cstrong\u003e—Ben Montgomery, author of \u003cem\u003eGrandma Gatewood's Walk\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eA Shot in the Moonlight\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   \"[A] rollicking true crime tale...This snappy page-turner informs and delights.\"\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   \"Stout brings the Whittemores and their era to vivid life in this engrossing biography...The Whittemores finally take their place in the pantheon of early-twentieth-century criminals.\"\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   \"In \u003cem\u003eTiger Girl and the Candy Kid\u003c\/em\u003e Glenn Stout has uncovered one of the last untold American crime stories. He has brought to life two irresistible characters reaching for a twisted American dream: wealth, infamy, violence, and freedom.\"\u003cstrong\u003e—Jeff Maysh, true crime writer\u003c\/strong\u003e   \"[An] entertaining, zippy chronicle of the Whittemores’ lives and crimes.\"\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eAir Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   \"Those interested in tales of white-collar crime and 20th-century history will be pleased.\"\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   \"A rip-roaring account of the Jazz Age's most-feared gangster couple... A compulsively readable criminal biography as well as a vivid cultural snapshot of early Prohibition-era America.\"\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eKirkus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   \"For the reader who is intrigued by America’s romance with gangsters, \u003cem\u003eTiger Girl and the Candy Kid\u003c\/em\u003e is definitely worth spending time with a couple who, for just a short time, lived their wild dreams.\"\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eNew York Journal of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   \"A hell of a yarn—worthy of an HBO hoodlum epic like ‘Boardwalk Empire.'\"\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e   \"Highly entertaining!\"\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eCrimeReads\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44889907396837,"sku":"NP9780358067771","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780358067771.jpg?v=1730232159","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/tiger-girl-and-the-candy-kid-americas-original-gangster-couple-isbn-9780358067771","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}