Ah, you guys are bringing up some old favorites of mine.
Fredric Brown. James Kelman! (Let's hear it for the drunken
Scots!)
For myself, I just last night read William Rehder's "Where
the Money Is: True Tales from the World Capital of Bank
Robbery" which, apparently, is Los Angeles. Nothing so good
that I'll take the memory of it to my grave, but a decent
little spot of true crime that you can probably finish in a
single afternoon. Pretty interesting, pretty lively. It's
mostly a bunch of short-story-length anecdotes that, like a
lot of true crime, don't exactly gel into a "book", and read
like a collection of magazine articles. But very interesting
magazine articles.
Anyway now I have a much better understanding of how dye
packs work, in case I decide to get into the business.
David Moran
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