----- Original Message ----- From: "Robison Michael R CNIN"
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Robison_M@crane.navy.mil>
> I read somewhere that, although many gangster novels
preceded
> Burnett's LITTLE CAESAR, it was the first one to
look at it from
> the gangster's end instead of from law enforcement.
What other
> hardboiled gangster novel preceded it? What other
hardboiled
> gangster novels came out in the 1930s? I can think
of FAST ONE,
> GREEN ICE, and, marginally, SANCTUARY.
Haven't read it, but Armitage Trail's SCARFACE (1930) has a
big reputation. Likewise Benjamin Appel's BRAIN GUY
(1934).
Al
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