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Running With Dillinger

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From the last men to be hanged in P.E.I to the bandits who plundered banks and trains in Canada and the U.S, this collection of true crime stories picks up where The Desperate Ones left off.
  • 12 February 2008
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This book picks up where The Desperate Ones: Canada’s Forgotten Outlaws left off. Here are more remarkable true stories about Canadian crimes and criminals — most of them tales that have been buried for years. The stories begin in colonial Newfoundland, with robbery and murder committed by the notorious Power Gang. As readers travel across the country and through time, they will meet the last two men to be hanged in Prince Edward Island, smugglers who made lake Champlain a battleground, a counterfeiter whose bills were so good they fooled even bank managers, and teenage girls who committed murder in their escape from jail. They will meet the bandits who plundered banks and trains in Eastern Canada and the West, and even the United States. Among them were Same Behan, a robber whose harrowing testimony about the brutal conditions in the Kingston Penitentiary may have brought about his untimely death in "The Hole"; and John "Red" Hamilton, the Canadian-born member of the legendary Dillinger gang.

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Price: $24.99
Pages: 232
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Publication Date: 12 February 2008
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781550026832
Format: Paperback
BISACs: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Criminals & Outlaws, Biography: general, TRUE CRIME / General, HISTORY / Canada / General
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Butts’ approach of combining examinations of the crimes with the subsequent police investigations and trials gives some excellent context to the various robberies and murders without glorifying the crimes themselves. This carefully researched work will appeal to fans of Canadian true crime who have enjoyed such books as Adrian Humphreys’ The Enforcer and Antonio Nicasco’s Rocco Perrie: The Story of Canada’s Most Notorious Bootlegger.
— Paul Challen

... this interesting collection of stories about criminals of Canada's past is one book you won't want to miss.


— Anne K. Edwards

Running with Dillinger ... is a must for any Canadian history collection who wants a look at Canada's famous lawbreakers and hoodlums - and for anyone who wants to see a Maple Leaf in a different light.


— James A. Cox

Edward Butts is the author of several historical non-fiction books, including SOS: Stories of Survival and True Canadian Unsolved Mysteries. He is the author of Idioms for Aliens, a humourous look at English grammar. His book The Desperate Ones: Forgotten Canadian Outlaws (Dundurn 2006) was nominated for an Arthur Ellis Award. Ed lives in Guelph, Ontario.