Free from presumably the author's estate via KDP Select @
Amazon:
Kill the Dutchman!: The Story of Dutch Schultz by the late Paul Sann with an introduction by true crime writer T. J. English (
Wikipedia) and a preface by journalist Pete Hamill (
Wikipedia), a true crime recounting of the life and times of the notorious 1930s gangster (
Wikipedia), originally out from Arlington House in 1971 and later picked up by the Popular Library imprint.
On October 23, 1935, a rusty, steel-jacketed .45 slug tore through the body of 33-year-old Dutch Schultz. It was no accident. Schultz, the Beer Baron of The Bronx who reaped $2 million a month as king of Harlem's numbers racket, had gone too far, having threatened to murder Thomas E. Dewey—the racket’s prosecutor who’d drawn up the tax indictment against him. The result was the biggest gangland execution since the 1929 St. Valentine’s Day Massacre in Al Capone's Chicago..
Schultz didn’t die instantly, lingering over a day, a police stenographer at his bedside recording every word. Dutch’s surrealistic, Joycean stream-of-consciousness deathbed ramblings are reproduced in full and Sann explores the meaning of the poetic jumble of his last words: “I am a pretty good pretzeler [sic], Please crack down on the Chinaman’s friends and Hitler’s commander,” and his most majestic utterance, “Mother is the best bet and don’t let Satan draw you too fast.”
In this 1930s real-life whodunit, legendary New York newspaperman Paul Sann investigates the meteoric rise of gangster Dutch Schultz, mean-streaked bully, alleged killer and reader of books, tracking the blood-flecked story from the Lower East Side and Bronx sidewalks to Broadway night spots to lavish Park Ave. penthouses and, ultimately, to City Hall—along the way uncovering the truces and alliances among politicians, judges, police, unions and racketeers.