This is a nice forum you have here. It would be a shame if anything were to happen to it...

Hi! It's my first post!

I love the Valachi Papers and have a question regarding his term "buckwheats", meaning (as I understand it) making a victim's death extra painful. Has anyone come across buckwheats in any other gangster lit, or read where the term could have come from?

I've got lots of gangster questions stored up in my head, and am glad to have found this forum.

Thanks!

Rich