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FICTION: Final Payments, Mary Gordon ∙ Innocent Eréndira and Other Stories, Gabriel Garcia Márquez ∙ Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer ∙ The Execution of Mayor Yin, Chen Jo-hsi ∙ The Left-Handed Woman, Peter Handke ∙ The World According to Garp, John Irving...
...cold, dark January night. John Mendell, 31, and Steve Garcia, 29, both burglars by trade and members of a gang of jewel thieves, creep up to a sprawling ranch-style house in the swank Chicago suburb of River Forest. The owner is vacationing in Florida, and there is $1 million in jewelry inside?jewelry they believe is rightfully theirs. A conversation can be imagined...
...thieves, who could have been called "the gang that couldn't think straight," belatedly decided that they had a raw deal. So at least two of them, Mendell and Garcia, broke into Accardo's house while he was in Florida. Police are not certain whether the gang recovered the loot but assume they did. Accardo did not file a complaint with the police and refused to cooperate when they learned about the burglary...
...Bernard Ryan, 34, an adept burglar thought to be part of the gang, was found shot to death in a car in suburban Stone Park. Two weeks later police discovered the mutilated body of Garcia in the trunk of a car at a motel near Chicago's O'Hare Airport. A fourth jewel thief associated with the gang, John McDonald, 43, was shot to death in a North Side alley in April...
FICTION: Final Payments, Mary Gordon ∙ Innocent Eréndira and Other Stories, Gabriel Garcia Márquez ∙ Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer ∙ The Execution of Mayor Yin, Chen Jo-hsi ∙ The Left-Handed Woman, Peter Handke ∙ The World According to Garp, John Irving