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...prison for an armed robbery that netted him exactly $19, emerges from the tank still wet behind the ears. The priest awakens a hope in the boy that he can actually make it the hard way. The boy works like a demon, impresses his boss. Then, fired for a theft he did not commit, he bitterly resolves on revenge. While trying to blow the boss's safe, he is surprised by a foreman, who attacks him with a crowbar. The boy panics, shoots his assailant dead, runs wildly through the streets till he is cornered in an empty house...
...Queen's Necklace, by Frances Mossiker. One of the 18th century's best puzzles-the theft of a 2,800-carat diamond necklace made for Marie Antoinette...
...Queen's Necklace, by Frances Mossiker. One of the 18th century's best puzzles-the still not fully explained theft of a 2,800-carat diamond necklace made for Marie Antoinette...
...Queen's Necklace, by Frances Mossiker. In a clever crosscutting of 18th century memoirs and trial briefs, most of them entertainingly libelous, the author tells about the famed and still-unsolved theft of Marie Antoinette's 2,800-carat necklace...
Best Reading The Queen's Necklace, by Frances Mossiker. In a clever crosscutting of 18th century memoirs and trial briefs, most of them entertainingly libelous, the author tells about the famed and still-unsolved theft of Marie Antoinette's 2,800-carat necklace...