Watch Your Back

by Sherilyn Decter

  Married to Edith Duffy (http://www.dvrbs.com/people/CamdenPeople-MickeyDuffy.htm)

  Duffy crew includes:

  Henry Mercer- chief lieutenant

  “Fingers” McGee- muscle

  Gus Toland- muscle

  Porter- muscle

  Eugene Smith- accountant, and lodger, Innocence Lost

  Mike Malazdrewicz- accountant, and replacement for Eugene in remaining books.

  John Bricker- Mickey’s driver and bodyguard (http://www.dvrbs.com/people/CamdenPeople-MickeyDuffy.htm)

  Arthur Werblun- Mickey’s attorney

  “Boo-Boo” Max Hoff (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hoff_(mobster))

  Hated rival of Mickey Duffy, bootlegger and boxing promoter

  Crew includes:

  Charlie Schwartz- chief lieutenant

  Max Hassel (http://www.berkshistory.org/multimedia/articles/beer-baron-max-hassel/) Sometime rival, sometime partner of Mickey Duffy

  Bailey Gang

  Frankie Bailey (http://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/archive/bootlegging/)

  James Bailey

  Petey Ford (Philadelphia: Organized Crime in the 1920s and 1930s)

  Gilbert “Bert” Bailey

  George “Skinny” Barrow

  Louis “Fats” Barrish

  Delores Bailey

  Chicago Gangs

  Al Capone (The Chicago Outfit) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Capone)

  Bugs Moran (The North Side Gang) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugs_Moran)

  The Law

  Colonel Smedley Butler- Director of Public Safety (aka Chief of Police) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler)

  Joe Kelly- member of the Philadelphia Police, and lodger

  Ralph Copeland- Captain of Special Enforcement Unit Number One

  District Attorney Samuel Rotan

  Inspector Frank Geyer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Geyer as well as Detective in the White City, JD Crighton, 2017, RW Publishing House)

  The Politicians

  Mayor Freeland Kendrick (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Freeland_Kendrick)

  William Vare (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Scott_Vare)

  The Community

  Maggie Barnes (aka Peggy or Margaret)

  Tommy Barnes

  Archie Mansfield- match teacher, and lodger

  Dick Beamish- reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer, and lodger

  Reg Littleton- car salesman, and lodger

  Cordelia Gifford- Maggie’s Mother

  Fanny- Joe’s fiancé

  Jimmy- Tommy’s friend