gangster genre?

Question: What's your favourite book in the crime/gangster genre!?
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Anything by Ian Rankin is worth a read! He writes books about a Scottish detective called Rebus! For true crime I've not long bought a book called Powder Wars about gangsters in Liverpool!Www@QuestionHome@Com

My own favorite depicts the flip side of the usual novel, film, or TV gangsters: Jimmy Breslin's The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight!. It's hilarious but, probably, still a more accurate portrait of an east coast gangster, at least in the 1970s!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Resolution!.!.!.!.C!.J!.Sansom!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.Really good, different slant from the modern crime book!. There are three others following this, they are Sovereign, Dark Fire and Revelation!.Give them a try you won't be disappointed!. Enjoy!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Michael Connelly writes a good detective novel try " The Poet "

but I just found a copy of Wiseguy a the Thrift shop I read a while ago it is the book by Henry Hill that the film Goodfellas is based onWww@QuestionHome@Com

This book is technically a mystery book, but it's got crime/gangster elements!.

The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

i read a book year ago called ''yardie'' about a jamaican guy in london who did drugs ect i havnt really read any other gangster books other than that so has to be that oneWww@QuestionHome@Com

Any of the books in the "Jack Reacher" series by Lee Child!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

In Cold Blood by Truman CapoteWww@QuestionHome@Com