Word: rififi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...theft appeared professional. To get at the heart, the thieves picked three locks to open a steel door and an iron grille, then chiseled the urn off its marble pedestal-all without attracting the security guards. It was a sort of grisly Rififi; yet no motive has been discerned. A local newspaper received demands for $50,000 in ransom, but they apparently came from cranks. By last week, although Montreal police still had two detectives on the case, the oratory's priests had given up hope. Whatever the motive, the thief may have been doing Brother Andr...
...Anderson Tape's is a standard "big caper" thriller (Topkapi, Rififi) in which a hungry hood just sprung from Sing Sing decides to strip a whole luxury Manhattan apartment house over a Labor Day weekend. He assembles a team of specialists to cut the alarm wires, finger the Klees and terrify any stray remaining tenants. The gimmick is that all the conspirators' haunts are bugged by various government agencies. Though it means that everything from a candy-store pay phone to Central Park itself has to be tapped, almost the whole novel consists of tape-recorded conversations instantly...