Here's one for you. Imagine that the gravel-voiced, 1930s-era screen star Wallace Beery and one of New York mobster Lucky Luciano's top henchmen beat and stomped to death one of the country's most famous comedians outside a Hollywood nightclub in 1937. Imagine that a participant in the fighting and eyewitness to the murder was the man who later would go on to produce the James Bond movies. Now imagine that the famous victim was the man who founded the Three Stooges, and that the Stooges -- particularly Shemp Howard, brother of Moe and Curly -- knew who committed the murder...