Armitage Trail

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Maurice R. Coons (1902–1930) is an American pulp fiction writer. Under the pen name Armitage Trail, he authored the 1929 novel Scarface. Based on the life of gangster Al Capone, this novel was adapted into a film in 1932, which was later modernized and remade into the best-known 1983 version starring Al Pacino. Coons’s only other significant work is the detective novel The Thirteenth Guest, though he is suspected to have used a variety of pseudonyms.