Danny Ahearn How To Commit a Murder (and all the Major Crimes of the Calendar and Get Away with It)
A non-fiction how-to about committing major crimes, by a gangster and ex-con.
chapters include: "How to Rob a Jewelry Store,"How to Stick Up a Fur Joint," "Straight Stickups," "Easy Money," More Rackets", "Taking a Crap Game," etc.
âWe honestly believe that the author, Danny Ahearn, could commit any crime and get away with it.â
âWilmington News-Journal
âI cannot see any good purpose or any social benefit to be derived from such a book. This might be otherwise but for the very exactness with which the author lays down the best and most certain rules for committing a murder, for robbing a jewelry store, for stealing an automobile . . . for the commission of every crime on the calendar âand getting away with it.ââ
âNashville Banner
âa truly dangerous bookâ
âLansing State Journal
âa thoroughly vicious bookâ
âMonrovia News-Post
âSo genuine is the picture and so is the criminal psychology revealed that it is difficult for the uninitiated to realize that there is in our midst a group of people who think differently, live differently, and react differently to all social standards and customs.â
âWichita Falls Times
âDanny Ahearn tells everything but one essentialâhow to acquire the nerve to kill a man and how to get rid of a guilty conscience after it is done.â
âVictoria Daily Times
âEven salacious or sexy trash is less harmful . . . One hopes to read some day soon that the person responsible for letting [this] volume get into the hands of the two Winnipeg boys has been apprehended and fittingly punished. He is more responsible for the eight burglaries said to have been committed by the boys than are the lads themselves.â
âEdmonton Journal
âMembers of the several fact-finding commissions now examining the breakdown in national law enforcement would do well to read and digest âHow to Commit a Murderâ by Danny Ahearn.â
âWichita Beacon
âWhen youâve finished the bookâand you owe it to yourself to read itâyouâll understand what Oscar Wilde meant when he made that crack about society not prohibiting theft but merely regulating it.â
âMassillon Evening Independent
âthe epitome of gangster ideals, if there are anyâ
âNebraska State Journal
âCritics have acclaimed it the frankest account of modern gunplay in a great city ever written.â
âWayne News
âDannyâs book gave me a cold chill more than once. I cannot honestly recommend his book, save to a very restricted clientele.â
âRock Island Argus
How to Commit a Murder is not merely absorbingâit's astounding.
âTrue Detective Mysteries, July 1930
Genres:
CrimeNonfiction
254 Pages