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Page 66
That's what finally happened on this job on Tremont Avenue and 177th Street in the Bronx . It was a store full of silk . We had been looking it over for a couple of weeks , and it looked like a cinch . It didn't even have a Holmes alarm ...
That's what finally happened on this job on Tremont Avenue and 177th Street in the Bronx . It was a store full of silk . We had been looking it over for a couple of weeks , and it looked like a cinch . It didn't even have a Holmes alarm ...
Page 90
The fire was opened up on him from a “ machine - gun nest " in a flat across the street , 202 Kolmar Avenue , and when he attempted to escape to the rear of the Presto home , he was felled by fire from a second nest in a window at 4518 ...
The fire was opened up on him from a “ machine - gun nest " in a flat across the street , 202 Kolmar Avenue , and when he attempted to escape to the rear of the Presto home , he was felled by fire from a second nest in a window at 4518 ...
Page 229
They are going to Fifth Avenue Hospital . * They had to drive down Second Avenue , and naturally they turn at 107th , as it's a westbound street and it takes them right to the hospital . On the way they realize Gene is dead , and they ...
They are going to Fifth Avenue Hospital . * They had to drive down Second Avenue , and naturally they turn at 107th , as it's a westbound street and it takes them right to the hospital . On the way they realize Gene is dead , and they ...
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| Title | The Valachi Papers Bantam books |
| Author | Peter Maas |
| Edition | 9 |
| Publisher | Putnam, 1968 |
| ISBN | 0399108327, 9780399108327 |
| Length | 285 pages |
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