Word: joes
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Shortly before midnight last May 5, an Army veteran named Joe Campos Torres, 23, was arrested for shouting insults and threatening customers at the Club 21, located in a Mexican-American community on Houston's east side. Wearing Army fatigues and combat boots, Torres appeared drunk but apparently healthy when police officers took him away. A few hours later, when the police brought him to jail, he was so badly bruised that duty officers refused to book him. They told the arresting officers to take Torres to Ben Taub General Hospital for treatment. Instead, six policemen drove...
More than ever, to the benefit of their checkbooks and their readers, crime and mystery writers work at other professions. Britain's Don Rumbelow (The Complete Jack the Ripper) is a London bobby; Los Angeles Cop Joe Wambaugh only recently quit the force. In the tradition of Erie Stanley Gardner, many are lawyers, notably Harold Q. Masur (Bury Me Deep), Francis ("Mike") Nevins Jr. (Publish and Perish), Joe Hensley (A Killing in Gold), and, of course, Englishman Michael Gilbert, creator of the Patrick Petrella series and, be it noted, the author of Raymond Chandler's will. The remarkable...
Gone, No Forwarding by Joe Gores (Random House; $6.95). Gores, 46, who was a card-carrying private eye in California before switching to literary license, dissects a Mob-connected conspiracy to sue, harass and murder the Bay Area-based Dan Kearny Associates detective agency out of business. DKA, as in two previous novels, survives-after an adrenaline-pumping, nationwide search for a missing witness, conducted in large part by the niftiest black op in the literature...
...strange side were Crimson trackmen Joe Pelligrini, Dave Kinney, Mike Stewart, and co-captain Dan Sullivan. The field-event foursome did their version of "Kiss" in Crimson sweatsuits, complete with white-and-black painted faces...
Behind Dales in the parade for individual scoring honors was an Amherst trio of Jim Collins, Tom Mitchell, and Joe Grochmal all of whom crafted 76s. Tom Fagaden also had a 76 for Tufts...