Giuseppe Gorgiano

Giuseppe Gorgiano's body (The Strand Magazine, april 1911)

Fictional character.

In the Sherlock Holmes stories

aka "Black Gorgiano" (REDC 442).
aka "Death"

• Giuseppe Gorgiano was a Posilippo (near Naples) gangster and leader of the Red Circle (REDC 520).

• He was a huge man with a giant body, but everything about him was grotesque, gigantic, and terrifying (REDC 522).

• He had earned the name of "Death" in the South of Italy, for he was red to the elbow in murder (REDC 542).

• He wanted Emilia Lucca for himself and wanted Gennaro Lucca to obey the Red Circle —specifically, to murder their benefactor Tito Castalotte. When the Luccas fled from New York to London, he hunted them for revenge (REDC 546 558 571).

• He was ultimately killed by Gennaro Lucca in the Howe Street flat (REDC 493).

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