The producer said he first met Lucania in 1960 and was working on a movie about Lucania's life. Police questioned Gosch for about five hours. Observers found the activity suspicious, and there were persistent rumors that Lucania was poisoned. Finding a small box of pills, he put one into Lucania's mouth. Knowing that Lucania had a heart condition, he searched the Mafia leader's pockets for pills. They were preparing to arrest him at the time of his death. United States Narcotics Bureau agents and Italian law enforcement had been trailing Lucania, known to many as "Lucky Luciano," believing that he was an organizer of an international narcotics smuggling ring. Warner's detailed analysis of the book was published in the April 2012 issue of Informer: The History of American Crime and Law Enforcement.) The Bureau dismissed the Gosch and Hammer book as a fraud, stating, "It is not believed that this book has any value to the FBI, or to anyone else for that matter." (Richard N. FBI records reveal that Gosch told a representative of the FBI that his movie script, the only product of his interaction with Lucania, was a work of fiction. An FBI investigation of Gosch labeled the producer an untrustworthy opportunist trying to profit from his association with Lucania. It was later discovered that Last Testament contained factual errors on matters that would have been well known to Lucania and also was built upon quotations attributed to Lucania that were fabricated by Hammer. Over time, the story was altered to suggest that Gosch provided handwritten notes to Hammer or provided his own recorded dictation of his original notes to Hammer. Little, Brown & Company followed up with a claim that a collection of Gosch's original notes - seen by no one connected with the project and allegedly burned by his widow after his death - was based upon thirty interviews of Lucania by the producer between 19. The publisher later issued a correction, revealing that no such recordings were ever made. The book's publisher, Little, Brown & Company, claimed in advertisements that Last Testament was based upon tape-recorded conversations with Lucania.
The book was released in 1975, after Gosch's death. Gosch and Richard Hammer authored a book, The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano, that was packaged as Lucania's memoirs. Gosch later suggested, without providing any evidence, that Lucania had dictated his life story to Gosch.
Lucania was at the airport to meet movie producer Martin Gosch and discuss a Gosch script for a Mafia-related movie. Longtime Mafia leader Salvatore "Charlie Luciano" Lucania, sixty-four, died January 26, 1962, of an apparent heart attack at Capodichino Airport north of Naples, Italy.
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