Eliot Ness and Al Capone: The men, the myths and the Bad Man in the Dark

In 1957, a former federal law-enforcement agent published "The Untouchables," which became one of the century's most famous crime stories. The rat-a-tat Tommy-gun tale of its author, Eliot Ness, and his incorruptible men in the Prohibition Bureau battling Chicago gangster Al Capone, proved to be a hard-boiled gem. It sold more than a million copies. It spawned a famous television series and a Hollywood blockbuster. It lofted Ness into the American pantheon of crime-fighting icons. He was the rea...