Seeking an interview, Chandler wrote to Luciano Lucania, who was known as Lucky Luciano and who was living in Naples after having been deported from the United States for criminal activities. Some of my questions to you may be rather brutal, he said, but if you decline to answer them, there will be no record that they have been asked. There will be nothing published by me which you do not say, but of course, I cannot be responsible for editorial comment. Chandler's sympathetic article based on that interview, titled My Friend Luco and written for The Sunday Times of London, was never published. http://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/31/books/raymond-chandler-a-master-letter-writer-too.html
