Re Bill Denton's comment:
> Surely there are no truly hardboiled stories
that
> dwell on cooking, beyond
> quick meals at diners and sumptuous feasts laid
on
> by corrupt city bosses.
> Haven't people here made an inverse
relationship
> between Spenser's
> toughness and his cooking?
Max Allan Collins's *Bullet Proof*, the third in his series
of novels fictionalizing Eliot Ness's adventures as
Cleveland's police chief, has Ness trying to stop the Mob's
plan to take over the food industry in Ohio. One of the
character's is a famous restauranter (a fictional composite
of two real-life figures) who is a victim of the Mob's
extortion attempts.
Lots of real-life mobsters (and a quite a few fictional ones,
as well) have owned and operated restuarants as fronts for
their illegal activities. In the 1954 theatrical film version
of *Dragnet*, Max Troy, the Mafia guy that Friday and his
partner are trying to nail, owns a place called the Red Spot
Grill. Presumably his real-life counterpart owned a similar
place.
JIM DOHERTY
JIM DOHERTY
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