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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, DJ-Anonyme@... 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?
One book with a 'family held hostage while robbers do the
job' plot is Dan J. Marlowe's ONE ENDLESS HOUR (1968).
Paul
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