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Bibliography:
 

Chipman, Art. “Tunnel 13”: The Story of the DeAutremont Brothers and the West’s Last Great Train Holdup. Medford: Pine Cone Publishers, 1977.

Clifton, Robert Bruce. Murder by Mail and Other Postal Investigations. Ardmore: Dorrance, 1979.

Cole, Leonard A. The Anthrax Letters: A Medical Detective Story. Washington: Joseph Henry Press, 2003.

Denniston, Elinore. America’s Silent Investigators: The Story of the Postal Inspectors who Protect the United States Mail. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1964.

Jeffers, H. Paul. Gentleman Gerald: The Crimes and times of Gerald Chapman, America’s First “Public enemy No. 1.” New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993.

Kahn, E. J., Jr. Fraud: The United States Postal Inspection Service and Some of the Fools and Knaves it has known. New York: Harper & Row, 1973.

Makris, John N. The Silent Investigators: The Great Untold Story of the United States Postal Inspection Service. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1959.

Pitkin, Thomas Monroe. The Black Hand: A Chapter in Ethnic Crime. Foreword by Francesco Cordasco. Totowa: Littlefield, Adams & Co., 1977.

Webber, Bert and Margie Webber. Oregon’s Great Train Holdup: bandits murder 4 – didn’t get a dime!: Last Great Train Holdup in the West. Medford: Webb Research Group, 1988

Zuckoff, Mitchell. Ponzi’s Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend. New York: Random House, 2005.

 
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