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The book follows him to the capital, Santiago, and to his first published collection, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCrepusculario,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003ein 1923, then on through many of his further collections up to his final works in the early 1970s. 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For more than a decade he and his ruthless henchmen terrorised Port of Spain and the seas around it, controlled gambling dens, night-clubs and brothels and dealt out savage punishment who got in his way. And there were still more sinister legends -- that he murdered scores of illegal immigrants between Trinidad and Venezuela, that he carried on wholesale piracy in the Gulf of Paria. Arrested at last on a charge of murdering an informer in his gang, he was tried twice -- the first jury disagreed -- and sentenced to death; but the Court of Appeal, in a sensational decision, found him not guilty. Finally after a bizarre interlude as a lay preacher, he became involved in the mysterious disappearance of the dancer Thelma Haynes, and in 1957 was executed for her murder.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe story focuses on themes that remain pertinent to Trinidadian culture and reminds that current alarms about crime and an escalating murder rate are very far from new. 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