Word: thief
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...John Michael Hayes, 89, batted out radio crime shows before becoming Alfred Hitchcock's go-to screenwriter in the mid-50s, penning Rear Window, To Catch a Thief, The Trouble With Harry and The Man Who Knew Too Much. An Oscar nomination for Peyton Place launched Hayes as the favored writer of elevated sleaze: Butterfield 8, The Carpetbaggers and the Carroll Baker Harlow...
...Westlake, he chronicled the misadventures of hapless criminal John Dortmunder (played by Robert Redford in the film version of The Hot Rock); as Stark, he penned the Parker novels, about a ruthless professional thief, whose screen incarnations include Lee Marvin in Point Blank and Mel Gibson in Payback...
...problem with Nightmare in Bangkok, and books like it, is that it is hard to sympathize with the narrator. Botts, who is eventually transferred to a U.S. prison and granted parole after spending less than five years at Klong Prem, is not a lovable rogue but a thief and heroin trafficker, and his time behind bars prompts little self-reflection. Seeming to sense this, he closes the book with a lame attempt to recast his dismal life as a parable about overcoming addiction, with the suggestion that he should never have been jailed. I agree with him that criminalizing drug...
Hilton, Paris •front door of mansion of is carelessly left open by - because really, what does anything matter, really? - allowing thief to stroll in and steal $2 million worth of jewelry from...
...Hauser Hall last weekend, according to the Harvard University Police Department’s public logs. Officers dispatched to the scene spoke to an unidentified member of the Law School staff who reported that two lockboxes containing keys and small amounts of cash were taken off the wall. The thief also reportedly stole three Lenovo laptops, each valued at $2000 or more. The police log states that officers conducted a field interview of an individual involved. HUPD arrested the individual in the course of its investigation, but not specifically for the theft. HUPD Spokesman Steven G. Catalano said that...