The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano
Title | The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Gosch |
Publisher | Enigma Books |
Pages | 470 |
Release | 2013-06-25 |
Genre | True Crime |
ISBN | 1936274574 |
In this true crime classic, out of print since 1981, Lucky Luciano remains a mythical underworld figure.
The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano
Title | The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano PDF eBook |
Author | Martin A. Gosch |
Publisher | |
Pages | 461 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Mafia |
ISBN | 9780333177501 |
The Last Testament Of Lucky Luciano The Mafia Story In His Own Words
Title | The Last Testament Of Lucky Luciano The Mafia Story In His Own Words PDF eBook |
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Release | 2013 |
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Lucky Luciano's posthumous memoirs may well have cost him his life. The partner of Meyer Lanksy and Bugsy Siegel, the man who created and controlled the "Commission" and the set down the rules, wanted to have his side of the story on record. It turns out that most of Luciano's criminal activity coincides with the history of the Mafia in America in the first half of the twentieth century and beyond. In preparation for a film of his life story, the famous New York gangster living in a golden exile in Naples recounted the main incidents of his life to producer Martin A. Gosch. Back in the United States, the new leaders of the Mafia were not pleased about the project that had almost reached completion and was ready to be turned into a screenplay. It is almost certain that their displeasure was communicated to "Charlie Lucky" with a hint to forget about the idea altogether. But Luciano went ahead anyway, compelled by the need to tell all and in some way offer an explanation about a life of crime. After taking a sip of espresso coffee at Naples airport as he waited for Gosch to land, Luciano died of a massive heart attack. Or was it something else' The film was never made, so this book remains the only account of the life of the man known as the "Boss of Bosses." Martin A. Gosch is deceased, and Richard Hammer lives in New York City.
The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano
Title | The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano PDF eBook |
Author | Martin A. Gosch |
Publisher | |
Pages | 461 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Luciano, Charles |
ISBN | 9780316321402 |
Lucky Luciano
Title | Lucky Luciano PDF eBook |
Author | William Donati |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2014-01-10 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0786493437 |
Charley "Lucky" Luciano was instrumental to the development of the American Mafia and supervised the attempt to dominate prostitution in New York City. Not surprisingly, he has been the subject of numerous biographies, exposes, and various works of urban folklore since his death in 1962. This book takes scholarship on Luciano to a new level, using fresh research on the investigation, arrest, and conviction of Lucky Luciano to delve deep into the sexual and criminal underworld of New York City. Topics include the complex structure of the New York City bordellos and the takeover that resulted in Luciano's 1936 arrest; his considerable role in the expansion of the international heroin trade; and the shocking attempt to sexually frame a member of prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey's staff in a desperate bid to overturn Luciano's conviction.
The Lucky Luciano Story
Title | The Lucky Luciano Story PDF eBook |
Author | Ovid Demaris |
Publisher | Pickle Partners Publishing |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2016-10-21 |
Genre | True Crime |
ISBN | 1787201317 |
CHARLES “LUCKY” LUCIANO was an Organization Man with a difference. The organization he belonged to was The Mafia—a natural setup for a vicious thug with unlimited ambition and a heart of ice. Murder by murder, rape by rape, he established the biggest chair of brothels ever seen in New York. Everything—everyone—he touched turned rotten. He knew he had it made when he had more cops on his payroll prostitutes. Pal of Al Capone, Frank Costello Buggsy Siegel, Albert Anastasia, Lucky became the absolute ruler of a private empire built on vice, corruption and murder. This is the Lucky Luciano story—brutal, shocking, with nothing left out.
Lucky Luciano
Title | Lucky Luciano PDF eBook |
Author | Hickman Powell |
Publisher | Barricade Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015-03-07 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781569809006 |
He was called the Father of Organized Crime. Lucky Luciano was born in Sicily and reared in poverty he arrived with his family on New York's Lower East Side. He was responsible for the infamous Atlantic City gathering of the nation's top mobsters that included Al Capone, and he structured the 'Cosa Nostra'. This book is written by a top investigative reporter who followed Luciano's trial from its inception to the jury verdict. It is also an incisive portrait of then prosecuting attorney Thomas E. Dewey whose tireless efforts resulted in conviction.