The Gangster Era -- The blonde bandit -- The Korney gang -- The blue ribbon gang -- Buffalo's molls -- Apartment 821 -- The $93,000 question -- The millionaire kid -- Bobbed-haired beauty -- The Mafia, part I -- The barrel murder -- Early Mafia families -- The Magaddino family -- The Magaddino relatives -- The crime family -- Apalachin -- November 14, 1957 -- Kidnapping cousins -- The Montana affair -- Bookies and gamblers -- The major players -- The whirlpool club -- The Mafia, part II -- The business of funerals -- Lupo the wolf -- Hide in plain sight -- A gangster, a hit and a Rembrandt -- Valachi and his sweetheart -- Deadly nights -- The union, the murder and the informant -- Mysterious murders -- A lesson from the mob.