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...motherhood for reasons left obscure. He goes through a ritual of cutting off his hair and washing his clothes and meets a man who promises him easy wealth. They travel to a country of "pyramids embedded in ice" and the narrator discovers that his companion is a grave-robber. His imagination is inflamed--he has visions of turquoise, gold, and diamonds. But the companion dies and instead of taking a body out of the pyramid, the narrator winds up throwing a body into it. There are no riches inside, and the only thing left for him to do is return...
...toughs who preyed on homosexuals. By week's end one of the men had been found shot to death, and another had given himself up. The third remained on the loose: Salvatore Soli, 37, a mustachioed, tattooed thug described by detectives as a drug pusher, car thief, armed robber and gay hustler...
...robber entered the building at 1:45 a.m., ordered the five customers to move to the rear of the store and demanded that cashier Greg E. Higgens hand over all the money in the register. He then ordered Higgens to lie on the floor while he made his escape...
After the robber had fled on foot, the cashier called Cambridge police, who arrived almost immediately...
...your garden-variety breather. He is a murderer who starts by ringing up women and ends by doing them in. As if this were not plot enough, the detective in charge of the investigation (Jean-Paul Belmondo) also devotes a great deal of time to tracking down a bank robber who has eluded him for months and become a personal nemesis. Belmondo's pursuit, which is elaborate and unlikely, finds him at one point hugging the roof of a speeding Metro train as he tries to get at the bad guy trapped in the car below...