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...ends, hundreds of pages later, with the question of who actually plugged Richie still disturbingly unresolved. Chiefly because of its villain, the novel is a chilling success. It is also overlong by half and lumbered with a few more plot elements than it needs -- most notably a political feud involving the accused would-be Senator. But the author's characterizations are tough and believable, and his sentences, which tended to wander through purple patches in his first novels, now are spare and efficient. A similar spareness in plotting might have helped matters. What's clear is that after half...
Although no evidence of a feud surfaced publicly, Rudenstine and other officials were less than pleased by the timing of McArthur's announcement, whether the timing was intentional...
...trusts. At one point, a family representative flew to Paris to discuss the matter with the new ambassador. Today no one is talking. The Harrimans, says Brooke Hayward, are "as close to an aristocratic family as you get in this country. They did not want to air the feud in public. That was a lot of money to lose in that period of time. They sat on their hands for years and went to her with every kind of emissary and deal." A source says the funds' remaining $3 million will be earmarked for the fight with the trustees...
George Knox, a gang researcher at Chicago State University, believes Yummy was sent on a specific mission of revenge sparked by a drug feud or a personal insult. "If it was just an initiation ceremony, he'd do it from a car. But to go right up to the victims, that means he was trying to collect some points and get some rank or maybe a nice little cash bonus." Yummy opened fire with a 9-mm semiautomatic into a crowd of kids playing football. Sammy Seay, 16, was struck in the hand. "I hit the ground," says Seay...
...these lines reveal the feud of sorts which emerges concerning the goings-on outside the rear window of Jeffries' Chelsea, New York apartment. Lisa Carol Freemont's theories of the murder are founded on the ideas of female ritual and manner. She claims that the missing Mrs. Thorwald would not have left without her favorite handbag which hangs on her bedpost. Nor would she have left all her jewelry at home, much less in the handbag where it would have gotten tangled-up and scratched. And she absolutely would not have left her wedding ring. So she was murdered...