100 Mystery Classics of World Literature maps the extraordinary breadth of mystery writing, from Gothic menace and sensation fiction to detective puzzles, espionage, psychological suspense, adventure, and tales of the uncanny. Its hundred selections place celebrated investigations beside narratives of crime, disguise, inheritance, urban danger, and moral ambiguity. The volume's range reveals mystery not as a narrow formula but as a capacious literary mode, encompassing the locked-room prob...

Maurice Coons, writing under the pseudonym Armitage Trail, gathered the elements for 'Scarface' when living in Chicago, where he became acquainted with many local Sicilian gangs. He prowled the murky streets of Chicago's gangland with a friend every night for two years, returning home to put to paper and write a book which somewhat documented his experiences. The resulted novel was 'Scarface', and it was worth the effort. Not just a thinly disguised biography of Al Capone, 'Scarface' is a ...

100 Masterpieces of Murder Mystery & Detective Fiction maps the extraordinary breadth of crime writing from Gothic terror and sensation fiction to the classical puzzle, espionage thriller, psychological suspense tale, and hard-edged urban narrative. Its hundred selections place locked rooms, poisoned inheritances, disappearances, criminal investigations, and uncanny intrusions in conversation with one another. The volume's range illuminates how murder mystery became a capacious literary fo...

‘I’m Scarface. I’m just about ten times as hard-boiled as Johnny Lovo ever thought of being. I’ve bumped off six or eight myself and another one – especially a rat like you – wouldn’t mean a thing in my young life. Get me?’Scarface is the iconic fictionalization of one of history’s most notorious gangsters, Al Capone. It follows Tony Guarino’s harsh upbringing on the streets of Chicago, where a young man unwilling to contemplate a life of humble poverty hungers to...

Scarface follows Tony Guarino, who rises from low level gangster to top lieutenant to mob boss intent on dominating the illegal liquor trade in Chicago during 1920s Prohibition by any means necessary. Along the way he must avoid assassinations by rivals, crooked cops, corrupt district attorneys, a couple femme fatales, and his own brother who rises to lieutenant in the police department.