Word: arsons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Arruda was fired in the fall of 1980 after being convicted of setting fire to a local Portuguese social club. He is currently on three years probation for attempted arson...
Concerned about the threat of arson from landlords of rent-controlled apartments seeking to escape Cambridge's tough housing codes, City Councilor David Sullivan yesterday called for a city investigation of a fire Wednesday at 1564 Mass...
...There's some strong circumstantial evidence of foul play here." Sullivan said, adding that the state fire marshall has joined the case, although no proof of arson has yet been found at the historic building...
Every Higgins novel has a theme of sorts--a crime with which most of the characters in the novel are concerned. In his first, and still probably his best. The Friends of Eddie Coyle, it was auto theft, in the 1981 model. The Rat on Fire, it was arson for profit: in The Patriot Game, it is gun-running for profit and the greater glory of the provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army. But whatever the crime of choice the novel is usually only an excuse to let the Higgins people talk...
...loansharks and waiting for his number to come in. Enid is supporting the family by some unspecified means and worrying about her philandering husband and her drop-out kid. Steve, an incipient delinquent, steals his father's pocket change to gamble with the boys, plays hookey and perhaps commits arson. Steve will end up like his father, on the edge of the rackets, looking over his shoulder for the cops and the robbers. His brother Paul is harder to place; neither we nor anyone else knows where he is going. Though most of the plot concerns him and his failures...