Lots of crime writers have done time, for one reason or
another. One of those was Donald Goines, who was later shot
to death. In Scotland, there's Jimmy Boyle and Hugh Collins,
both convicted murderers. And then there's Krystian Bala...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6979457.stm
Al
----- Original Message ----- From: "m23to53" <
library.john@virgin.net> Subject: RARA-AVIS: Crime
writer's crimes?
>I am in the middle of writing an article about a
1930s crime writer
> who ended up in court because he rewrote another
author's book without
> permission. This has made me wonder about crime
writers whose lives
> could have been a plot for one of their books - that
is, are there any
> crime writers who were either the victims of serious
crime - murder
> etc, or ended up in court accused of such a crime?
Can anyone think of
> anyone?
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