Word: theft
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Cambridge police detectives are investigating the theft of the Straus Trophy, which disappeared from its perch in the Dunster House dining hall early in April...
Three local youths were arrested Wednesday night for robbing three M.I.T. students. They may also be booked for car theft and kidnapping...
...gall. Some punk just walked up and stole this 1963 Ford station wagon, not even considering who the owner was. So Mickey Spillane, 45, had to report the theft to the Sarasota, Fla., cops. Moped he defensively: "I know what you're going to say: 'Go find it yourself.' " Gone with the car were his wife's engagement and wedding rings, his wallet, and the only manuscript of his new book, The Body Lovers. The manuscript he didn't mind. "That just means I've got to sit down and do three more days...
...such cases, critics customarily use the word "derivative," which is a libel proof way of saying that the author's best skill is burglary. But there is no intentional theft here. Baker's book is his own; its mistakes and its successes have edges too rough to have been cut by imitation. The author is in the ridiculous position of a man who, in all good faith, has written a good, sound, playable five act tragedy about a Scandinavian prince whose father has just been murdered by his uncle...
...powerful magic ring of alchemized gold. But he happens to be working as a tutor to the Princess Margaret in the Irish castle of the lusty Queen Katherine. The Queen has become ravenous with desire for her dead husband, who has turned into a vampire. She arranges the theft of Faustus' ring and vamps the vampire, turning him back temporarily into human flesh...