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	Caper story - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The caper story is a subgenre of crime fiction.
		The typical caper story involves one or more crimes (especially thefts, swindles, or occasionally kidnappings) perpetrated by the main characters in full view of the reader.
		The caper story is distinguished from the straight crime story by elements of humor, adventure, or unusual cleverness or audacity.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Caper_story (472 words)

	Crime fiction
		The majority of novels of that era were whodunnits, and several authors excelled, after successfully leading their readers on the wrong track, in convincingly revealing to them the least likely suspect as the real villain of the story.
		Another development is the courtroom novel which, as opposed to courtroom drama, also includes many scenes which are not set in the courtroom itself but which basically revolves around the trial of the protagonist, who claims to be innocent but cannot (yet) prove it.
		Some of the finest crime novels, including those which are regularly chosen by experts as belonging to the best 100 crime novels ever written (see bibliography), have been out of print ever since their first publication, which often dates back to the 1920s or 30s.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/cr/Crime_fiction.html (10596 words)

	Talk:Crime fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction, and the type of crime fiction you describe (crime committed in full view of the reader) is only one variety of the genre.
		My poorly labelled reference to criminial novels was to reflect the fact that novels like the Godfather, which are told from the criminial perspective are also labelled under crime.
		Granted, one of the novel's themes is how Bateman acts "above the law", but it is still a spoiler.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Crime_fiction (1970 words)

	CARDSHARK Online: Cons, Scams and Grifts
		In this new novel, the men and women of DKA meet up once again with members of the Muchwaya family of Gypsies.
		Told vignette-style, with a huge cast of characters and many subplots, this novel is anchored by the adventures of the beautiful Gypsy witch Yana, cast out from her clan, forced to scam her way alone through the gadjo world and now wanted in the death of her husband.
		Caper novel, murder mystery, encyclopedia of con games here Gores has reached a masterful level, loose (street accuracy is not as solid as in his early books, for example) and playful (with a cameo from Michael Connelly's L.A. sleuth, Harry Bosch, and a hilarious nod to Gores's longtime pal Donald Westlake).
	cardshark.us /amazon/b_0446678694.html (930 words)

	Un-Official Raise The Titanic! Novel-Clive Cussler Page
		Once he was certified, Dr. Cussler started bringing in his typewriter in the morning and wrote at a card table behind the counter when business was slow which was usually in the afternoons.
		With constant rejection letters on his first novel, Pacific Vortex, Dr. Cussler had decided that it would be a smart decision to find himself a literary agent.
		was the first novel to have several plots going on at the same time and to have them all converge at the end.
	www.raisethetitanic.com /novel/clive_cussler.html (1413 words)

	Ben Rehder Buck Fever Reviewed by Terry D'Auray
		'Buck Fever' is a caper novel about deer hunters, drug smugglers, and the "law", set in Blanco County in southern Texas.
		This is a caper book, so it's supposed to be fun and funny -- the kind of funny that's rooted in unusual, quirky characters placed in a series of increasingly implausible situations.
		Caper books work best if some of the characters are stupid and all of the situations are absurd.
	trashotron.com /agony/reviews/2003/rehder-buck_fever.htm (751 words)

	Wikinfo \| Crime fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The novel literally tended to be a crime novel to such an extent, that a few years after its first publication, film director Michael Curtiz adapted the novel for the big screen, he lived up to the cinemagoers' and the producers' expectations by adding a murder which is absent from the novel.
		A conventionally written and dull novel about, say, a "fallen woman" could be ranked lower than a terrifying vision of the future full of action and suspense.
		Some of the crime novels generally regarded as the finest, including those which are regularly chosen by experts as belonging to the best 100 crime novels ever written (see bibliography), have been out of print ever since their first publication, which often dates back to the 1920s or 30s.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Crime_fiction (2243 words)

	Donald E. Westlake: an annotated bibliography
		John Dortmunder is the leader of a burglary gang, hired by the ambassador of an African nation to steal a disputed emerald -- of at least as much symbolic importance as monetary value -- from a rival African nation while said emerald is in the U.S. on a museum tour.
		An ingrained practical joker, sentenced to prison after one of his jokes got out of hand, is inadvertently dumped into a gang of prison trusties who are able to periodically sneak out of prison to commit robberies for which they have the perfect alibi: they're in jail.
		It's really a comic caper novel, the capers consisting of the efforts of a team of tabloid reporters to get stories for their newspaper.
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		This novel is about the rise and fall of gangster Cesare Bandello, better known as Rico.
		This novel tells the story of Mark Harris, who is hunted by both sides of the law, with few avenues of escape.
		Though both White novels cited here are hardcover, he also wrote a number of gems for Gold Medal including The Big Caper (1955) and Death Takes a Bus (1957).
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	ACHUKASTORE - Eleven on Top (A Stephanie Plum Novel) - Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		She may be tired of having her life threatened, her cars torched or blown up, and her apartment broken into, but one thing she can say about her job is that it's never boring...
		I have read several of the books in the series and other than the first one I read in which I found her characters to be novel and amusing, each book is the same.
		In this novel Stephanie has decided she's had enough of being a bounty hunter, but that life hasn't yet had enough of her.
	www.achuka.co.uk /amstore/info.php?asin=0312306261 (939 words)

	Hollywood Nostalgia
		While the early caper mysteries were characterized by the gentlemen thief, the modern form is characterized by "the big score." The early caper mysteries were one or two-man crimes while the big score mysteries are anything from one-man operations to a crowd, as in Boston's Brink's job.
		The caper loot was relatively meager while the big score is just that; an operation that will leave its executors financially secure for their remaining years.
		The caper mystery and the big score mystery are stories of crimes of precision and daring execution and, according to those who study mystery fiction, are most likely fictional crimes to be imitated by the real world criminal elements.
	members.fortunecity.com /moviezine/page19.htm (7628 words)

	Crime Scene - a crime and mystery ezine - review "Dutch Uncle" by Peter Pavia, July/August 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		With its slick cast and its Florida setting, Peter Pavia’s debut novel is an assured piece of work; a caper novel that treats itself seriously, making sure that even if some of the characters and situations seem outrageous, the sense of danger is never diluted.
		Pavia makes us believe his dialogue and manages to easily separate the snappy, street rhythms of the small time crooks who gather round their Dutch Uncle and the world weary speech patterns of the cops who are closing in on them.
		Harry – whose journey to change his ways and find some kind of purpose in life (thanks in part to the lovely barmaid Aggie) provides the moral centre to the novel – is the kind of principled ex-con we need to root for, and yet still he is imbued with a life off the page.
	www.crimescenescotland.com /articles_review_dutch_uncle_july_august_2005.htm (976 words)

	21stCentury.html
		Now imagine the same novel told from the perspective of the killer--that would be a crime novel (a weird crime novel, but still a crime novel).
		There are some excellent police procedurals and detective novels and novels about police officers (Ellroy's THE BLACK DAHLIA pops into my head), but when I'm reading I usually find the criminals much more interesting than the police, so when I write I naturally try to stick to the criminals' perspectives.
		His second novel, KISS HER GOODBYE, will be published on March 7th, 2005, by Hard Case Crime (click here for a review).
	www.crimeculture.com /21stC/starr-int.html (5997 words)

	Tony Broadbent The Smoke Reviewed by Terry D'Auray
		If 'The Smoke' were simply the story of Jethro and his tension-filled heists, it would be a cool caper novel, well done and absorbing.
		Broadbent expertly enriches the classic caper story with his finely detailed London settings, a well-portrayed sense of the social and economic climate, and a broad cast of expertly drawn characters.
		'The Smoke' is an amusing, enthralling first novel - a caper with all the expected suspense, enriched by a superior setting and an engrossing social sub-story.
	trashotron.com /agony/reviews/2003/broadbent-the_smoke.htm (591 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Ideas / Searching for Tibor Fischer
		SINCE THE 1992 publication of his debut novel, "Under the Frog," British author Tibor Fischer has earned a reputation as a luxuriously satirical and erudite writer.
		"The Thought Gang" (1994) was a caper novel about a Cambridge philosopher who robs banks, while "The Collector Collector" (1997) was a bawdy art-historical romp narrated by a piece of pottery.
		IDEAS: Oceane, the central character in "Voyage to the End of the Room," decides the world is "one large machine constructed to tribulate you" and retreats to her apartment in a London-like city, where she stages elaborately faked trips around the world.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/ideas/articles/2004/01/25/searching_for_tibor_fischer (565 words)

	ColdBurnBooklistReview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		But where McEvoy spins a caper novel, Ehrman probes deep into the workings of the breed farm.
		Ehrman spices her crime novel with drugs, arson, and assault, and populates it with suspects ranging from the farm’s owners to their wealthy clients to the barn laborers who share Cline’s work load.
		Kit Ehrman’s real strength, however, is her canny ability to carry the reader into the foaling barn so that its sights and sounds and smells and vitality are completely vivid.
	www.kitehrman.com /ColdBurnAlfredHitchcock.html (223 words)

	The Mozart Forgeries - Daniel N. Leeson - from Leeson Books
		If it didn’t have the bold disclaimer, “A caper novel” in its cover, The Mozart Forgeries could well be shelved along with John Carter’s An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets.
		Taken at face value, The Mozart Forgeries is a picaresque novel as well as a genre novel.
		We who work or have worked in and about the world of musical scholarship are uniquely qualified to explore and enjoy this book like an artichoke — each leaf is yummy but as we approach the heart they become increasingly delicious until, wonder of wonders, we finally reach the heart.
	www.leesonbooks.com /forgeries/review.boonin.php (525 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Bobby Gold Stories: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The foodies will slaver over a wonderfully wrought scene in his latest caper novel--it's set at a chic Manhattan restaurant where a gourmand gangster with a picky palate turns the chef's menu upside down and stiffs the poor waiter who has to accommodate him.
		Its protagonist is Bobby Gold, an ex-con who works as a security guard at Eddie Fish's Nightclub and is involved with a sexy sous-chef named Nikki whose preparation of a special meal for her lover reads like Bourdain's version of foreplay.
		The novel (Bourdain's third, after Bone in the Throat and Gone Bamboo) tells the story of Bobby Gold, probably the world's most unlikely gangster.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1582342334 (1262 words)

	Magellan's Log: Donald E. Westlake: Put a Lid on It
		All that’s necessary is all that’s ever been necessary for the writer: be a close observer of the world and what happens in it, be a gifted teller of tales (which basically means: interesting characters, a good beginning, a good middle, and a good ending), and have a way with words words words.
		As Westlake has shown time and again, from the workman-like novels of his apprentice years (it would not be beneath the circle-jerkers to refer to those works as "pulp"), through a whole range of both funny and serious books and screenplays, he’s got all the equipment.
		Somebody’s got an incriminating video of the current president and the bright guys running his campaign decide the only safe way to get their hands on it is to hire a skillful burglar.
	www.texaschapbookpress.com /magellanslog60/westlakelid.htm (694 words)

	Doubleday Books \| The Up and Up by Lee Irby
		Charming yet ill-fated Frank Hearn is ready to leave behind his high-stakes lifestyle and finally stake his claim in the world—and no place promises a quicker route to the good life than Miami.
		“7,000 Clams is a rip-roaring caper novel full of tough guys and tougher dames, snappy patter and bursts of violence, all wrapped around that much-bigger-than-life historical character Babe Ruth.
		In this impressive first novel, Irby keeps his story twisting and turning, and he writes in a sleek take on hard-boiled style that tips its fedora to masters like Chandler and Dashiell Hammett without overdoing the similes.
	www.randomhouse.com /doubleday/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385518628 (640 words)

	Amazon.com: Profile For Shelley McKibbon: Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The central plot is this: Grace Hollister, American schoolteacher, PhD candidate, and devotee of the "bad boys" of Romantic poetry, is on a sort of research trip/vacation in the Lakes district of England when she stumbles over a body in a stream.
		REX is the story of a boy, his dinosaur, and their efforts to outwit an evil paleontologist bent upon selling Rex (the dinosaur) to a collector of rare animals.
		Also, the culmination of the novel must feature the kind of suspense that makes me wonder how on earth our heroine is ever going to get out of the mess she's in - while at the same time I am confident the writer will pull a thrilling escape from her sleeve.
	amazon.com /gp/cdp/member-reviews/A3V7AJOW02QYQN (5791 words)

	'Alice in Jeopardy'' by Ed McBain, reviewed by Bill Bickel
		If this were thirty years ago, I’d have gone through half a bottle of Wite-Out as I typed and erased countless drafts of this paragraph.
		A couple of dozen novels ago, McBain created the character of “Fat Ollie” Weeks, and an interesting character he was: thoroughly obnoxious, racist, but a smart detective.
		He might show up briefly in a book and be comic relief, annoy the 87th Precinct detectives, and help them out, all at the same time.
	mysterybooks.allinfoabout.com /mcbain/alice.html (424 words)

	Amazon.com: Cons, Scams, and Grifts (Dka File Novel): Books: Joe Gores (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Joe Gores does a tremendous job in "Cons, Scams & Grifts" of keeping the novel under control, a highly commendable achievement considering that the book has dozens of characters who play significant roles in the plot, as well as probably over a dozen separate storylines, most of which are interrelated in some way.
		I understand that this novel is a sequel of sorts to "32 Cadillac's", which I've never read, using many of the same characters.
		A roller coaster of a novel, dealing with a passel of repo men and women and a whole tribe of gypsies.
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	Shadow of the Templar
		These four novels are something of a testing ground for me: if I can make myself write all four, not only will I learn a lot in the process, but I'll know that I apparently have what it takes to write novel-length original fiction.
		I've read a whole bunch of novels with FBI agents in them and a couple of personal accounts written by FBI agents, and that's about it.
		I won't put up a novel until it's complete; it's bad enough if I leave people hanging, but leaving them hanging in the middle of a book would be unforgiveable.
	mooncalf.org /sott/faq.html (1030 words)

	John Dortmunder
		Donald Westlake is the King of the Comic Caper Novel (any argument?) and JOHN ARCHIBALD DORTMUNDER, his prize creation, is the savvy professional thief whose plans always, for some strange reason, go spectacularly and hilariously awry.
		Supposedly, the first novel in the series, The Hot Rock, began as another Parker novel (under the pen name of Richard Stark), with the idea of a thief having to steal the same thing over and over.
		And Drowned Hopes shares a chapter with Joe Gores' 1992 DKA novel 32 Cadillacs, with the gang stealing one of the Cadillacs of the title.
	www.thrillingdetective.com /dortmunder.html (981 words)

	NRC-Interacting Factor 1 Is a Novel Cotransducer That Interacts with and Regulates the Activity of the Nuclear Hormone ...
		NRC-Interacting Factor 1 Is a Novel Cotransducer That Interacts with and Regulates the Activity of the Nuclear Hormone Receptor Coactivator NRC -- Mahajan et al.
		NRC-Interacting Factor 1 Is a Novel Cotransducer That Interacts with and Regulates the Activity of the Nuclear Hormone Receptor Coactivator NRC
		GRIP1, a novel mouse protein that serves as a transcriptional coactivator in yeast for the hormone binding domains of steroid receptors.
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	On the road again
		Matthew McConaughey was only a toddler when author Clive Cussler introduced modern-day adventurer Dirk Pitt in the novel "Mediterranean Caper." Thirty-two years and 16 novels later, the maverick actor is bringing the action hero to life on the big screen in "Sahara."
		Though most of Pitt's adventures take place at sea, the producers saw "Sahara," one of the most popular novels in the series, as having the greatest commercial potential.
		If "Sahara" is a hit at the box office, McConaughey is ready for more adventures, though it is uncertain which of Cussler's novels will be adapted next.
	www.azcentral.com /ent/movies/articles/0331mmc31.html (991 words)

	Bill Fitzhugh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		"A deft, funny, caper novel, incorporating...gleefully savage attacks on the Church, the advertising industry and the charity industry...While often compared to Carl Hiassen, Fitzhugh is fast creating his own dark and funny category...
		His is a Los Angeles that might long for the relative sanity of The Day of the Locust...
		It is clear, though, that with his third novel Fitzhugh tightens his grip on a reputation for absurdist fl comedy.
	billfitzhugh.com /reviews_cd.html (249 words)

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