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...climax - how does the book end? I also have a series of log lines for each book. In A Is for Alibi, Kinsey Milhone is hired to prove the innocence of a woman just out of prison for the murder of her husband. In B Is for Burglar, Kinsey Milhone is hired to find and get a signature on a minor document. So I know the setup for each book, and when I move to the next in the series, whatever that may be, I go back and review what I've done and figure out a way to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Mystery Writer Sue Grafton | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

...gender, race, religion, or sexual orientation are particularly heinous due to the fact that they intimidate and offend all members of those groups. But all crimes, by their very nature, intimidate and offend more than just the victims, for crimes are affronts to society as a whole. Does a burglar not intimidate and offend all residents of the neighborhood in which his victims dwell...

Author: By Dhruv K. Singhal | Title: More Equal Than Others | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

...July, Gates was mistaken for a burglar when trying to get into his own house after finding the door jammed. The policeman investigating the incident arrested Gates for disorderly conduct when Gates reacted angrily to being mistaken for a burglar in his own home...

Author: By Alice E. M. Underwood, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Gates Honored For Academic Works | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

...various points in his life Connor has been a musician, a bank robber, and a cat burglar. He’s gotten into violent vendettas against Boston police, been put in jail, and broken out armed only with a gun carved out of soap. He even owned a pet cougar. But Connor is most notorious as a master of the art heist—so notorious that he was suspected of the 1990 robbery of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum while incarcerated...

Author: By Antonia M.R. Peacocke, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Harvard Job | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

...driving a truck, Blankfein's father took a night job sorting mail at the post office - "which in our neck of the woods was considered to be a very good job, because you couldn't lose it," Blankfein says. His mother worked as a receptionist at a burglar-alarm company - "one of the few growth industries in my neighborhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rage Over Goldman Sachs | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

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