Jim Heimann Sins of the City: The Real Los Angeles Noir, Chronicle Books: San Francisco, CA, 1999, 159 pp., 1947, 1940
[pp. 114, 115] ["Bugsy Siegel, c. 1940; "Bugsy sprawled on the couch of Virginia Hill's rented Beverly Manse, June 20, 1947. Returning from a trout dinner in Ocean Park, Siegel and his bodyguard retired to the couch to catch the early editions of the newspapers . . . Speculators figured too much money was mishandled in the construction of the Vegas Flamingo and East Coast bosses wanted him eliminated."]