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conversations.value: What is a description for a book titled Money for Nothing about Award, Writers, Eye with the genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers & Suspense?
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conversations.value: DONALD E. WESTLAKE has written numerous novels over the past thirty-five years under his own name and pseudonyms, including Richard Stark. Many of his books have been made into movies, including The Hunter, which became the brilliant film noir Point Blank, and the 1999 smash hit Payback. He penned the Hollywood scripts for The Stepfather and The Grifters, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. The winner of three Edgar awards and a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master, the author was presented with The Eye, the Private Eye Writers of America's Lifetime Achievement Award, at the Shamus Awards. He lives with his wife, Abby Adams, in rural New York State.
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conversations.value: What could be a title for a book about Jeeves, Blandings, Castle with the genre: Literature & Fiction?
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conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'Money For Nothing'
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conversations.value: What is a description for a book titled Money For Nothing about with the genre: Literature & Fiction?
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conversations.value: A riddle inside an enigma inside a comfy cardigan, the author is a musician, a high-noon runner, and a collector of novelty tea mugs. He writes because no one yet has stopped him.
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conversations.value: What is a plot for a book titled Money for Nothing about Award, Writers, Eye with the genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers & Suspense?
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conversations.value: Money for Nothing (1993 film): Joey (John Cusack) is an unemployed longshoreman who finds a bag full of money that fell out of the back of an armored car.\nJoey forces his friend Kenny Kozlowski (Michael Rapaport) to drive Kenny's car in the lake to hide the tire tracks.\nUnknown to them, a local boy witnesses them doing the crime.\nJoey tells Kenny that he's not going to turn the money in and will keep it for himself.\nJoey refuses to tell his family about it.\nThe police are investigating the missing money and the local boy tells them about the car.\nThe police find the car in the lake and trace it back to Kenny's house.\nLater, the police head to Kenny's house.\nDuring that, Kenny's dad beats his son with a belt and Kenny tells the police that Joey took the money.\nThe neighbors overhear this and word spreads around the city that Joey took the money.\nJoey and his girlfriend head to the airport to leave the country, until they get arrested.
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conversations.value: \nJoey and his girlfriend head to the airport to leave the country, until they get arrested..\nThe neighbors overhear this and word spreads around the city that Joey took the money.\nDuring that, Kenny's dad beats his son with a belt and Kenny tells the police that Joey took the money.\nLater, the police head to Kenny's house.\nThe police find the car in the lake and trace it back to Kenny's house.\nThe police are investigating the missing money and the local boy tells them about the car.\nJoey refuses to tell his family about it.\nJoey tells Kenny that he's not going to turn the money in and will keep it for himself.\nUnknown to them, a local boy witnesses them doing the crime.\nJoey forces his friend Kenny Kozlowski (Michael Rapaport) to drive Kenny's car in the lake to hide the tire tracks.Money for Nothing (1993 film): Joey (John Cusack) is an unemployed longshoreman who finds a bag full of money that fell out of the back of an armored car
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conversations.value: Money for Nothing (novel): As well as Lester and Hugo, John Carroll, another nephew of Lester\'s, also lives at Rudge Hall; he\'s the manager of the estate.\nA diffident fellow, he\'s in love with Pat Wyvern, the daughter of the irascible Colonel Meredith Wyvern.\nPat likes John but deplores his lack of backbone.\nIn any case, the Colonel wouldn\'t hear of them marrying because he\'s at daggers-drawn with Lester due to an incident involving an explosion.\nLester, who\'s a devoted trencherman, despite his miserliness, has enrolled on a fitness course at Healthward Ho.\nHugo travels over there with the aim of touching his uncle for £500 to start a nightclub with his friend Ronnie Fish.\nPredictably he\'s rebuffed.\nJohn travels up to London to meet Pat, who\'s just returned from France.\nHugo hitches a ride.\nThey all go out to a nightclub, The Mustard Spoon, where they\'re joined by Ronnie and by Soapy and Dolly Molloy, who Hugo\'s just met at a boxing match.\nSoapy and Dolly are a pair of fraudsters, and partners in crime to Chimp.\nThey\'re a married couple, but are pretending to be father and daughter.\nJohn proposes to Pat, but she rejects him.\nThe club is raided by the police and they flee.\nThey all end up at Rudge Hall, where Soapy tries to sell Lester some oil stocks.\nIt emerges, to Soapy\'s dismay that Lester isn\'t the wealthy landowner he thought he was.\nIn fact he\'s broke.\nDolly comes up with the idea of stealing Lester\'s family heirlooms and claiming the insurance (the heirlooms don\'t legally belong to Lester, so can\'t be sold).\nShe describes the scheme as "Money for Nothing".\nLester initially attempts to steal the heirlooms himself, with disastrous results, so they rope in Chimp.\nChimp is caught in the act by Hugo, but gets away.\nIn order to get rid of Hugo, and stop him foiling their scheme again, Lester gives him and Ronnie £500 to start their nightclub (we learn in Summer Lightning that the venture is a failure).\nChimp is persuaded to have another go, and this time the burglary goes smoothly, or so it seems.\nBut Chimp has been seen and recognised by the butler, Sturgis, who informs John.\nJohn travels to Healthward Ho to confront Chimp.\nDolly goes with him and puts knock-out drops into his drink when they arrive.\nChimp locks John up in a room with bars on the window, but eventually John turns the tables on the conspirators, and learns to his horror that Lester is in on the plot.\nHe dashes back to Rudge Hall and confronts his uncle.\nAs a penance, Lester agrees to make it up with Wyvern.\nIn the meantime, Pat, thinking that John has run off with Dolly, has accepted Hugo\'s proposal of marriage.\nWhen she learns of John\'s heroism she realises the error of her ways and sweetness and light reign.