Genius Against the Odds (A Gritty Mob Tale of Greed, Power, and Genius) / A Gritty Mob Tale of Greed, Power, and Genius (ePub)

Malcomb Q Riddle is a pseudonym for the author, Marvin Furman, who is retired and living in North Carolina.

Ten-year-old Marvin had three primary interests, baseball, newsworthy charismatic gangsters, and writing. Unfortunately, his inability to hit a curveball ended Marvin's ambition of becoming a professional baseball player.

Fascinated by the notorious and then incarcerated bank robber, Willie Sutton, Marvin wrote the criminal, asking to be in his gang right after graduation. However, the youngster's subsequent failure of Sutton's Bank Robber's IQ Test dashed his hopes of being immortalized on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List.

Left to pursue a writing career, Marvin spent his adolescent years compulsively writing whatever came into his mind. Marv eschewed sports, academics, girl chasing, and becoming a juvenile delinquent to practice his writing skills. Since he spent all his waking hours with pen and paper, his mother feared his writing was becoming an addiction. She thought he'd be better off if he became a juvenile delinquent.

Marvin's obsession with writing continued through his impressionistic teen years. Instead of becoming a teenage werewolf, a choice inspired by the popular movie, he wrote poems and stories for his classmates. In those days, Marvin would hole up in his room, writing and smoking.

Before his writing addiction, Marvin never smoked. But as everyone knows, all great writers smoke. Shakespeare once said, "How can I be expected to write great plays when cigarettes have yet to be invented? I need a good smoke."

While growing up in a Bronx neighborhood frequented by "wise guys," Marvin compiled observations that led to journals of the gangsters' unique mannerisms, talking styles, and dress.

Also, some bizarre people in the neighborhood suffered from misunderstood mental problems, and those people were intolerantly referred to as "crazies." Marvin crafted the distinctions of these

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