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Earlier that evening the three black men, Michael Griffith, 23, Cedric Sandiford, 36, and Timothy Grimes, 18, along with Griffith's cousin Curtis Sylvester, 20, had left the Griffith home in Brooklyn. They later told police they had gone to Far Rockaway in Queens to pick up Griffith's paycheck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Black Vs. White in Howard Beach | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

Some American mystery writers pay homage to the past masters of the craft by setting their stories in Britain. The most prominent is Martha Grimes, a sometime teacher of fiction at Johns Hopkins, who ironically was unable to get her work published in Britain until now. Her current offering, I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Time to Murder and Create | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

DIED. Burleigh Grimes, 92, Hall of Fame pitcher for several National League teams between 1916 and 1934 and 20-game winner for the Pittsburgh Pirates and Brooklyn Dodgers, who became the last man legally to throw a spitball in a major league game; of cancer; in Clear Lake, Wis. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 23, 1985 | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

Martha Grimes is an American mystery writer who up till now has forsworn the traditional metier of her countrymen, the novel of action, in favor of dead-on English-village mysteries of the kind wrought by Britons a half-century ago. Her seven novels have all been named for actual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notable Help the Poor Struggler | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

Her new effort features a more pedestrian detective along with her stock characters, a deadly earnest tone and a climactic burst of violence befitting its story of long-calculated revenge. Although the setting remains British, Help the Poor Struggler is rather an American novel, with brooding and cynical overtones of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notable Help the Poor Struggler | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

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