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Joseph Francis Dinneen (1897–1964) was a crime reporter for The Boston Globe.[1] He wrote several books and articles, many of which were adapted for film.[2]

Books

• Yankee Fighter: The Story of an American in the Free French Foreign Legion (1943), co-authored with John F. "Jack" Hasey[3]
• The Purple Shamrock (1949), a biography of James Michael Curley
• Underworld U.S.A (1956), the story of a growth of a criminal empire
• Ward Eight (1936)
• The Anatomy of a Crime (1954), early book on Great Brink's robbery[4]
• The Great Brinks Holdup (1961), co-authored with Sid Feder

Films

• Six Bridges to Cross (story "They Stole $25,000,000 - And Got Away with It")
• Let Us Live (story "Murder in Massachusetts")
• Underworld U.S.A.

References

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