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Mom's a madam in 'And When She Was Good'
Heloise Lewis wears several hats. She's a prostitute who runs an escort business. She's a single mom who voraciously reads classic literature and has a close relationship with her 11-year-old son. And she's entangled with a murderer who also happens to be...
Tags: Starbucks Corp., Enoch Pratt Free Library, Newspaper and Magazine, Sex Crimes, Prostitution
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State police stop talking in code
Cops are starting to talk like the rest of us.
The Maryland State Police became the latest law enforcement agency to throw out its cryptic language, directing officers this week to stop telling each other "10-4" and instead just say "OK."
It's a...Tags: Maryland State Police, Anne Arundel County, Prince George's County, FEMA, Radio
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Laura Lippman's darker side of Dickeyville
The pungent, haunting narrative of Laura Lippman's new novel, "The Most Dangerous Thing," kicks in with a group of kids arguing for dibs on a grassy kickball field near a cotton mill on "Wetheredsville Road."
The whole scene sounds like a cozy...Tags: Mystery (genre), The Wire (tv program), Sex Crimes, David Simon, Literature
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McDaniel College offers new minor in genre fiction
Coming unstuck in time, Pamela Regis was investigating the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime. When the clocks struck 13, she dreamt she went to ... to Manderley? — no, McDaniel. Strange as it might seem, Regis' dream of jumbled-up...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Students, Teaching and Learning, Fiction, Science Fiction (genre)
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William N. Jackson, IRS supervisor
William N. Jackson, a decorated World War II veteran and retired Internal Revenue Service group supervisor who assisted in the criminal investigation of 1970s political corruption cases, died at Sinai Hospital on Sunday after falling at his home. He was...Tags: Washington College (Maryland), Christianity, Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Army, U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary
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Unwind with these worldly webs of intrigue for fall
Does the approach of autumn's more rigid schedules and cooling temperatures seem like too much to bear? Give the excitement of summer one last hurrah. Take a vicarious wild ride with these volumes of international thrills. "Outlaws Inc." by Matt Potter...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Documentary (genre), Trips and Vacations, Movies, Fiction
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Connie L. Knox, Sun copy editor and Guild leader, dies
Connie L. Knox, a veteran Baltimore Sun copy editor and Sun Magazine writer who had been active in the Newspaper Guild for decades, died Sunday of an apparent heart attack at her Sparks home.
She was 68.
Connie L. Mugrage was born and raised in Akron,...Tags: Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Periodicals, Unions, Mass Media, Collective Contract
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Appreciation: Peter Falk's Columbo rivaled best Brit detectives
The Baltimore SunPeter Falk had a fine career on the stage and in feature films. His crazed comic performance in "The In-Laws" alone would guarantee a major appreciation from film critics and scholars. But it is his network television work in the 1970s as a modest, sly,...Tags: Disco (genre), Agatha Christie, Dining and Drinking, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Bars and Clubs
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The sniff test: How to pick a perfume for someone
Is it possible to pick a perfume for someone? Should you even attempt such a personal gift? If the recipient likes fragrance or is interested in scent, the answer is a resounding yes. And we've got some tips and guidelines for shopping. For starters,...
Tags: Chanel S.A., Health and Beauty Products, Barbie (fictional character)
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Libby Fischer Hellmann follows suspenseful new paths
Early in her career as an author, Libby Fischer Hellmann had written three unpublished novels, and thought she was hot stuff. Then her agent told her she needed to change her writing, her characters and her voice, and while she was at it, she needed...
Tags: Authors, O.J. Simpson, Burson-Marsteller, Murder, NBC (tv network)
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‘Dragon Tattoo’: Denise Mina on Larsson, feminist crime fiction
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - latimes.comIt's hard to imagine someone better suited to adapt Stieg Larsson's “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” as a graphic ...... -
The significance of Erdrich
Just before N. Scott Momaday won the a 1969 Pulitzer Prize for "House Made of Dawn," Marshall Sprague reviewed the book for the New York Times and began: "This first novel, subtly wrought as a piece of Navajo silverware, is the work of a young Kiowa...
Tags: Authors, Colleges and Universities, Tuberculosis, Sprague, Sex Crimes
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