This book is about numerous crimes through the years.Many of the crimes discussed in the book are well known (O.J. Simpson Jon Benet Ramsey ) There are a couple of cases that I am interested in learning more about.Charyl Chessman aka Red Light Bandit. The Sam Sheppard case real...
Consider the fact that although more than fourteen thousand men have appeared in a lineup of at least one major league baseball game, fewer than six hundred have managed one. Small though that number is, it is inflated by dozens of skippers with only a few weeks or months at the helm of a club. I...
So far, wondering about it was as far as he’d gone. He did not really like the idea of cameras. Chilly things, staring, reporting back. Although CCTV might be fine at a bank or petrol station or jail, it did not seem to Manse suitable for his and the children’s home – and Patricia or Carmel or Lo...
They were on their way to see someone in that dismal category now. Pellotte found disloyalty almost impossible to understand. If you belonged to a company, drew your income through a company, you surely owed it your full, honest allegiance. Of course, Pellotte knew that many would say the amount ...
Necessary. Wise. The Colonel Commandant flipped over several report pages so he could remind himself of the signatures: ‘V Mair, BL Schiff. Perhaps a little fancifully, I call them twins because they operate so naturally together. Veritable birds of a feather.’ For that last bit, the birds and fe...
Harpur read the lead story in it across the table to Iles fairly sotto. An Alert archive head and shoulders picture of the ACC, taken on the previous clean-up visit, was let into the bottom half of the column. ‘When we refer to strange happenings we do not mean strange happenings within the play ...
That might be because B dealt only with the practical: no theorizing, no theology, no hearty kicking around of bouncy moral questions. Instead, B was good on organizations and their structure, a subject Esther liked more than ethical jigsaw puzzles. For instance, months before she went to Fieldfa...
They were graceful steps – what one would expect from Ralph. He believed he had style. Ralph probably thought he had more of it than others might, but, just the same, Ralph felt a responsibility to move elegantly and offer his profile at favourable angles. He seemed to be waiting for somebody. Al...
During the last months of his National Service, Ian Charteris had a couple of visitors, a man and a woman in good civilian clothes, who carried very high-grade Defence Ministry identification. One or other of them had overdone the scent. Ian didn’t know much about scent but he thought this one sm...
She showered and dressed, then set out for the house of Karen Lister and Jason Wensley in Carteret Drive. She’d driven them there that night after they’d had too much at a Monty do. Her clothes were more formal than she’d usually wear for her Keep Fit visits. She had on full-heel black patent sho...
This was an ex-rectory, for God’s sake – well, yes, for God’s sake until the church sold up – but he just rolled in from Hackney wearing a foul, pricey, two-vent sports jacket, no phone call or anything like that to ask if it would be convenient or suitable. He reckoned because he was who he was ...
Pack law. Basic. Anyone who went undercover knew this. Yes, of course, Thomas Rodney Mallen did know this, but it was a while before he had to apply such obvious, tidy undercover wisdom to how he actually behaved. You didn’t just stroll into the realm of secret duty and its special, non-stop mora...
She said: ‘Give it to me now, Fatman. Give it to me. Now.’ They were in bed. ‘I deal in antiquity not in now,’ Simberdy replied. ‘But I’ll stretch a point for you.’ He kissed her breasts. ‘Yes, stretch your point for me,’ Olive said. They began to giggle, but not fatally. ‘God, but we’re a pair o...