Besides Stash Koskoska and Nifty Louie, this work also features a titular character who ends the work by hanging himself at a flophouse.
One character in this work toils away at an icehouse and greatly enjoys ripping the pages off the calendar, while another character is nicknamed "fixer" and once went through the process of going "from monkey to zero." Besides Stash Koskoska and Nifty Louie, this work also features a titular character who ends the work by hanging himself at a flophouse. FTP, name this work about the tragic Frankie Machine, the titular junkie, a novel by Nelson Algren. 
One character in this work toils away at an icehouse and greatly enjoys ripping the pages off the calendar, while another character is nicknamed "fixer" and once went through the process of going "from monkey to zero."
The Man With the Golden Arm