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The concluding volume of the complete Big Nose Serrano stories. Three short novels and one novelette are from the rare gang pulps, Greater Gangster Stories (1933-34), and The Gang Magazine (1935). As the series progressed, Big Nose became a champion of FDR's New Deal policies, enforcing them with the gangster's tools of violence, kidnapping and murder--and a sense of humor. Great fun, and truly unique.

The first four Big Nose Serrano novels by gang-pulp superstar, Anatole Feldman, from Gangster Stories, 1930-31. Never reprinted since original publication. Feldman established Serrano as one of the earliest adaptations of Cyrano de Bergerac, setting his hero in the Chicago of gangland times. He grew into a gangster of near-mythic proportions, inspiring to his Tommy gun toting followers, and feared by his mob enemies. But as violent and harrowi...

The second volume (of 3) in the collected stories of pulpdom's most notorious Chicago gangster. In these four short novels from 1931-32, Big Nose plays the ponies, in two interconnected tales, he fights corruption in the Bloody Tenth Ward by running for assemblyman, and brings the same manic intensity to politics that he did to Tommy-gun warfare, in the fourth story, he struggles against a mysterious underworld nemesis, the Spider. Unique in p...