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- Michael Walsh's And All the Saints ISBN 978-0-446-51815-4 is a fictionalized account of Madden's life, told in the first person, from his arrival in New York to his decampment for Hot Springs in 1935.
- Madden was portrayed by Bob Hoskins in Francis Ford Coppola's The Cotton Club.
- The character Owney Maddox, the Arkansas mob boss targeted by gunslinging DA's Investigator Earl Swagger in Stephen Hunter's novel Hot Springs, is modeled on Madden's later years.
- Madden is portrayed in the 1997 film Hoodlum by Dick Gjonola, noticeably without a Yorkshire accent.
- Orville Halloran, character from Daredevil Noir (see Marvel Noir), is modeled after Madden.
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