STOOL PIGEONIt’s Christmas Eve in Little Italy, and Vince Milazzo is called in to investigate the murder of Tony Statella, shot in the head outside of Rocky Tosco’s restaurant. Milazzo has got a personal grudge against Tosco that goes back to their childhood. He knows that somehow Rocky is involved, and is determined this time to bring him down. Even though the murderer turns out to be a kid who was avenging the honor of his sister, Milazzo keeps pushing the Chief for more time. He knows that Rocky is guilty of something, if only he can find someone to rat on him. But every stool pigeon Milazzo talks to tells him the same thing—they don’t know from nothing. Now Milazzo has until midnight to find the connection … or this case might very well be his last. "Louis Malley obviously knew how the mob and the cops operated in his era. He uses that knowledge and creates some fine character studies in this suspenseful, fast-paced novel. Every page of Stool Pigeon feels real and true."--Elgin Bleecker, The Dark Time "Malley's creates a bleak, dirty and depressed setting for the streets of Little Italy in the early 50's. He does it so well, the reader wishes for snow to come to clean the place up. This is an excellent novel." -- Vintage Hardboiled Reads Malley's creates a bleak, dirty and depressed setting for the streets of Little Italy in the early 50's. He does it so well, the reader wishes for snow to come to clean the place up. This is an excellent novel. --Vintage Hardboiled Reads STOOL PIGEON It s Christmas Eve in Little Italy, and Vince Milazzo is called in to investigate the murder of Tony Statella, shot in the head outside of Rocky Tosco s restaurant. Milazzo has got a personal grudge against Tosco that goes back to their childhood. He knows that somehow Rocky is involved, and is determined this time to bring him down. Even though the murderer turns out to be a kid who was avenging the honor of his sister, Milazzo keeps pushing the Chief for more time. He knows that Rocky is guilty of something, if only he can find someone to rat on him. But every stool pigeon Milazzo talks to tells him the same thing they don t know from nothing. Now Milazzo has until midnight to find the connection or this case might very well be his last. Louis Malley was born and raised in New York City. He lived in Harlem, the Bronx and Little Italy neighborhoods, where he got involved with the gangs. He eventually left the streets to take on various jobs including writing political slogans and working as a bouncer at a 125th Street bar. Malley wrote four gritty novels set in the world he grew up in, beginning with the hardback publication of Horns for the Devil in 1951, which received the French Grand Prix de Littérature Policièrein award in 1953. His last novel, The Love Mill, appeared in 1961. According to a newspaper report, Malley was shot and killed in 1962 at age 40.