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Old 10-18-06, 09:08 PM
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Are there any detective/crime books about the prohibition era?
Other then the untouchables that is.
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Hoods AKA Once Upon A Time in America - I don't know how much detective but plenty of crime!
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Pretty much anything by Dashiel Hammett. A lot of speakeasies and bootleggers show up in his books. But illegal booze is not the point of the stories, the way it is in The Untouchables.
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