![]() ![]() ![]() Here’s my pick of the gangster books I’ve read over the years:Īn obvious choice, perhaps, but a reflection of how seminal it is to the genre. His only care is staying alive long enough to find the missing girls, but LA is Siegel’s town … ![]() Set in Los Angeles and Las Vegas during the construction of Siegel’s Flamingo Hotel, it sees Charlie investigating the disappearance of two Hollywood starlets while trying to dodge Bugsy. Having one of history’s most famous gangsters in such proximity to my story was too good a chance to pass up, and in my new novel, Cold Desert Sky, Siegel takes centre stage. That’s when serendipity came into play: in researching the book, I discovered that Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel was at that time a regular visitor to Hot Springs. The sequel, Black Night Falling, saw my protagonist, Charlie Yates, drawn back to Arkansas, to the town of Hot Springs – a real-life mob town in the 1940s where illegal gambling and prostitution flourished. My first novel, The Dark Inside, was based on the Texarkana Moonlight Murders, a 1946 serial-killing case. I never set out to write about gangsters. ![]()
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