Ann Arnold captured a period in Fort Worth’s not-too-recent history with the keen eye of a speakeasy lookout.
Quentin McGowan, Fort Worth, Texas
Ann Arnold has written a thoroughly delightful chronicle of fort Worth’s last wild ‘n’ wooly era. Anyone who was around in those days remembers reading and hearing about exploding cars, mob hits, and late-night police raids, but Ann Arnold refreshes our memories and provides crucial details that fill in some of the gaps in the story. Move over Chicago and New York, Fort Worth’s gangsters could sling lead with the best of ’em!
Dr. Richard F. Selcer, Fort Worth, Texas
Fascinating-well researched. I learned a lot about the entertainment business of a bygone era.
Bobbie Wygant, Entertainment Reporter at KXAS-TX, NBC-5, Fort Worth/Dallas
(Ann Arnold’s) book . . . is terrific . . . I was there as player-manager of the Fort Worth Cats baseball team.
Bobby Bragan
. . . a gripping account of rampant crime in Fort Worth during the thirties through the fifties, hoodlums, gamblers, murderers, dopers, pimps, and lawmen on the take . . . shooting each other or blowing each other up . . . Ann has captured it all just the way it really was.
Bill Farley, Columnist, Fort Worth Star Telegram
