I found out an interesting fact while I’ve been researching The Eastside Hustler, the second book in my Alex Cohen series…
In between the world wars, there was a Detroit gang who were part of the St Valentine’s Day massacre in Chicago 1929 and they were called the Purple Gang. As violent a bunch of guys and you’d be scared to meet in the middle of the day, let alone on a dark night.
Oh, you think. And here is the interesting fact: there is a reference to the Purple Gang on Elvis Presley’s Jailhouse Rock.
