Scarface

Scarface is a novel written by Armitage Trail in 1929 and published in 1930. The 1932 and 1983 films were loosely based on it. The twenty-eight-year-old author died suddenly of a heart attack nine months after the novel was published. Plot The book's storyline is heavily inspired by the real life gangster Al Capone whose nickname was also "Scarface". It concerns the rise and fall of Tony "Scarface" Guarino, who after performing a hit on mob leader Al Springola, moves in to take over the illegal alcohol business in Chicago during the Prohibition Era. He is ultimately shot dead by his brother (who concurrently rises in the ranks of Chicago PD), who fails to recognise him due to the family believing him to have died in World War I. Adaptations 1932 film