Cursed greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused. -- Virgil

Debby Grahl

Tags: gold crime silver romance-novels



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I saw her sign the register, but her name isn't on it any more. The bellboy says he never saw her. Now they've got me so I'm scared and shaky, like a little kid is of the dark. I want you men to help me. Won't you men help me?'

'We'll help you' - said the lieutenant in charge. Slowly, awfully slowly; I didn't like that slowness - 'if we're able to.' And I knew what he meant; if we find any evidence that your story is true.

("All At Once, No Alice")

Cornell Woolrich

Tags: crime evidence police



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It's odd to imagine, of course: you pass a car on a lonely rural highway; you sit beside a man in a diner and share views with him; you wait behind a customer checking into a motel, a friendly man with a winning smile and twinkling hazel eyes, who's happy to fill you in on his life's story and wants you to like him - odd to think this man is cruising around with a loaded pistol, making up his mind about which bank he'll soon rob.' - Richard Ford, Canada

Richard Ford

Tags: canada fiction literary crime



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I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.

Richard Ford

Tags: canada literary crime



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It was as if they'd discovered something that had once been there but had gotten hidden or misunderstood or forgotten over time, and they were charmed by it once more, and by one another. Which seems only right and expectable for married people. They caught a glimpse of the person they fell in love with, and who sustained life. For some, that vision must never dim - as is true of me. But it was odd that our parents should catch their glimpse, and have frustration, anxiety and worry pass away like clouds dispersing after a storm, refind their best selves, but for that glimpse to happen just before landing our family in ruin.

Richard Ford

Tags: canada marriage literary crime



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Saltei da quinta nuvem para o primeiro plano planejando revirarrevoltas e crimes contra os costumes.

Filipe Russo

Tags: crime costume saltar nuvem planejar plano revirarrevolta



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No more self-defeating device could be discovered than the one society has developed in dealing with the criminal. It proclaims his career in such loud and dramatic forms that both he and the community accept the judgment as a fixed description. He becomes conscious of himself as a criminal, and the community expects him to live up to his reputation, and will not credit him if he does not live up to it.

Frank Tannenbaum

Tags: crime criminal-justice criminal-justice-system



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Meet me tonight, six o’clock sharp, at the gates of the municipal hospital. It is very important that you are precise. Not five minutes early, not five minutes late. In case I’m not there, you leave straight away. Got it?”

Ingrid aka ‘Alis K’
The Informer

Steen Langstrup

Tags: crime world-war-2 scandinavian-mysteries



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It is one thing to look at a mistreated boat and another to look at a tomb. The silence of the bay seemed more intense. And I could see the glint of the carrion flies.

John D. MacDonald

Tags: death crime



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Only the big souls can forgive the big crimes!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Tags: crime



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