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DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net"
DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net wrote:
<< I think I first read the plot where a bank manager's
family is held hostage while one of the criminals takes the
manager to open the bank's vault in one of Garry Disher's
Wyatt novels. Since then, I've seen it in a number of TV
shows -- Law & Order, one of the CSIs, 24, maybe even
Nash Bridges.
So, my questions are:
When did this start showing up in books? Was Disher the
first?
And does this happen in real life? I don't remember reading
about it in the papers. Seems there's a lot of added exposure
there.
Duane, you've written a book on bank jobs, real and
fictional. Do you know?
>>
I'm the other Duane, but . . .
When I was a kid growing up in a rural Kentucky farm
community sittin on the state line, about an hour's drive
north of Nashville, someone took hostage the manager (and his
family) of a bank in a smaller community in the county. It
happened at night, the bank was robbed, and the banker and
his family killed. This was sometime in the 1960s or early
1970s.
A small press published a book about it, PEACH ORCHARD ROAD
by Roger Futrell, in 1976. Don't know nothin' about it,
though.
- Duane Spurlock www.pulprack.com
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