Little Caesar (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Little Caesar Time, which has brought us these people in hun dreds of variations, has also made it hard to see the book as it was. You read (on the last frightening page) Rico rushed him, pumping lead -and you smile. You think not only of Mickey Spillane, but of S. J. Perelman’s Somewhere a Roscoe But this book was published in 19291 I don’t know if anyone ever pumped lead before, but I do know that some thing authentic about Chicago and its gangsters was being said in this book.

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