Word: underworld
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...apparently hasn't occurred to them that with the price up, the marijuana market is now appealing to the underworld...
...BOSTON-The FBI said yesterday it had cracked another underworld case. Agents arrested James F. Casey of Randolph in connection with the theft of one million S and H Green Stamps...
...rules prevent the prosecution from referring to the Mafia or making any mention of the defendants' underworld activities that might prejudice the jury. Occasionally, Mosley manages to work in a reference to the witnesses' fears before the defense can get in an objection. And point by point, he builds a strong case...
Protecting People. Much of the recorded conversation centered on the fine points of murder, and it was clear that, in the underworld, neatness counts. The 1951 gunning down of Willie Moretti in a Cliffside Park, N.J., restaurant was distasteful to Angelo DeCarlo, who had a better idea: "Now like you got four or five guys in the room. You know they're going to kill you. They say, 'Tony Boy wants to shoot you in the head and leave you in the street, or would you rather take this [a fatal drug], we put you behind your wheel...
...generically as any Chandler. A detective is engaged to track a missing husband. The wife is alcoholic, inscrutable and intriguing. Armed with few clues and a feeling that he is embarked on a useless yet necessary quest, the detective proceeds to make a grand detour of the local underworld scene. What started out as a whodunit winds up as a "Who-am-I?" Separated from his home, and a victim of a sense of alienation to boot, the detective begins to identify with the missing husband and yearn for his own wife, to the point of self-return: "No good...