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...about sex crimes against innocent people. In later books the victims are as villainous as the killer. In Murder at the Savoy (1971), a tycoon is shot during an after-dinner speech, his death mask etched in mashed potatoes. He turns out to have been a major white-collar crook with, among other things, a far-flung gunrunning empire. The eponymous Abominable Man is, of all things, a police superintendent. After someone slices the man in half with a bayonet, Beck compiles an appalling dossier of his brutalities. Many instances are easily available in the Ombudsman's files...
...Germany's Herbert Becker (Siegmund and Siegfried) is not the most passionate Heldentenor around, but he sings all the music-and that in itself is no small achievement-with taste and control. The character parts are well cast, particularly the dwarfs Alberich and Mime (Malcolm Rivers and Paul Crook) and the scheming Hagen (William Wildermann...
...here is Leonard Holmberg, with a problem. Holmberg, a silver-haired man with long sideburns who is the Summer School's registrar, has come into Crook's Holyoke Center office just after Crooks himself has gotten there: Crooks has barely had time to glance approvingly at the rave review in the morning Herald of the previous night's concert...
...Conformist, 5:30, 9:35 p.m.; The Crook...
...store family's fortune, was recently watching a TV movie about a bank robbery. Suddenly his wife pointed at one of the robbers and asked, "Isn't that the man you're in business with in California?" By Dun & Bradstreet! The 6-ft.-plus, curly-haired crook on the screen was in fact the same fellow with whom Lyons had just concluded a six-figure real estate deal. "It was the first I knew he was an actor," says Lyons stoutly. "He had a proposition, and when we met to make the transaction, he was a totally...