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Shortly after this, the story ends with no clear resolution or any real explanation of what the prizefighter did to seal his fate, but leaving readers with a sense of dread.

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Known for ground-breaking fiction tightly packed with vivid descriptions and fluid dialogue, and populated with troubled, resilient characters, the Nobel Prize-winning Hemingway also touched on the criminal underworld he knew of during his formative years. Born in , Hemingway, before his decades-long global adventures, spent time in two Midwestern cities ripped by organized crime: Chicago and Kansas City.

Still a teenager, Hemingway worked at the Star from October 18, , to April 30, , covering the General Hospital and crime among other subjects, then went to Italy during World War I as a Red Cross ambulance driver. In July , he was delivering chocolates and cigarettes to Italian troops along the Piave River in northern Italy when he was wounded by an Austrian Minenwerfer mortar shell.

After the war, while in his early twenties, Hemingway was a reporter for the Toronto Star in Canada and Europe, filing stories on topics that included crime in Chicago and bootleggers during Prohibition smuggling liquor from Canada into the United States. He also included crime vignettes set in Kansas City and Chicago in a collection of short stories titled In Our Time , published when the author was only in his mid-twenties.

The series aired from Whether Hemingway was involved in this romance and planned hit is up for debate. If it had been true, however, and a hit had been carried out, later Hemingway masterpieces such as For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea never would have come about. Hemingway lived until age 61, killing himself with a shotgun blast at his home in Ketchum, Idaho.

In the biography Hemingway , author Kenneth S.