BANDITS & RENEGADES: Historical True Crime Stories presents some of the most unusual desperadoes in the annals of crime. Meet: Patty Cannon, the Canadian-born "devil woman" whose gang terrorized African Americans in the dark days of slavery; Eddie Guerin, a career criminal who stunned the world with his fantasic tale of escape from Devil's Island; Clan-na-Gael, whose members engaged in terrorism at the turn of the 20th century; Henry Wagner, an Old West bandit who turned pirate; Alvin Karpis, Canadian-born Depression Era outlaw who became Public Enemy #1; Georges Lemay, bank robber and suspected murderer whose long flight from the law brought him up against space age technology.

Ed Butts is an author and humorist who lives in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. He spent eight years teaching in the Dominican Republic where he wrote these plays to fill a void in available teaching materials.