Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI, was immensely jealous of the agent who had been his friend and prot'g', and vowed that Melvin Purvis would be brought down. With each new capture, each new headline touting Purvis as the scourge of gangsters, one man's implacable resentment grew. Yet these triumphs sowed the seeds of his eventual ruin.
America finally had its hero in the War on Crime, and the face of all the conquering G-Men belonged to Melvin Purvis. Just thirty-one years old, he presided over the neophyte FBI's remarkable sweep of the great Public Enemies of the American Depression - John Dillinger Pretty Boy Floyd Baby Face Nelson. By the end of 1934 Melvin Purvis was, besides President Roosevelt, the most famous man in America.
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