Where'd the money go?  Kiefer's bail?
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Wow!  Talk about busting the bank.  It looks like they started making CGI movie, cool enough.  But when the budget ran out, and from the looks of it the budget ran out early, they drew the rest of the movie in bad, early-80s, 2-D animation.

Too bad, I was expecting something at least equivalent to Batman the Animated series.

It would have been better if they did the whole movie the 2-D animation, then it would have at least been consistent!  I would have preferred having the characters voiced by unknown, well cast beginners than spending the money on Lucy and Kiefer and having horrid animaition!
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The Case of the Ice-Cold Hands

There is a need for close liaison between law enforcement, forensic pathology and legal medicine. A Medical Examiner can determine if a death was murder, suicide, or accidental. This book is dedicated to Joseph B. Fallon, recently retired Deputy Superintendent of the Boston Police Department. Fallon was a shrewd interrogator who taught and trained his picked investigators to carry on his skills.

Della Street tells Perry Mason that a new client is waiting impatiently to see him. Audrey Bicknell has five tickets on a horse in a race, and wants them cashed in if the horse has won. Perry wants more information to protect himself. Audrey wants cash only, no cashiers check (Chapter 1). The radio says this long shot paid off 27 to 1! After Perry cashes them in, a police detective and Marvin Fremont claim the money was embezzled by Rodney Banks. They have no proof of any connection to Perry Mason. Perry returns the call from Audrey Bicknell, and finds her name is Nancy Banks! Perry finishes this business with receipts for everything (Chapter 4). Acting for Nancy Banks, he puts up bail money for Rodney Banks, her brother (Chapter 5).

Then Perry gets a phone call summoning him to see Nancy Banks. Her motel room is empty, but a check of the bathroom finds a dead body! Then Nancy shows up with a story about being robbed at her apartment; her hands are ice-cold. Nancy doesnt want to call the police. But when Nancy admits to finding the body earlier, Perry calls Lt. Tragg in Homicide, who then questions Nancy about her days events. Nancy is too upset to answer all the questions, so she is free until tomorrow (Chapter 7). Perry now has a new client who may be holding out information.

But Nancy disappears on her return to her apartment! Paul Drake calls Perry, Larsen Halstead is there with a story about Marvin Fremonts business and it bears on Rodney and Nancy Banks. We hear about Fremonts dealing in antique jewelry (Chapter 10). Perry calls Lt. Tragg to report this, and learns the police are looking for Halstead. Perry finds out where Nancy Banks is staying. Perry visits Nancy and gets her story (Chapter 11). They discover a secret in Marvin Fremonts remote past life (Chapter 12) and in his business (Chapter 13).

Chapter 14 finds Nancy Banks charged with first-degree murder. The body was found in the shower of her motel room. Was this in fact the murder site? Perry suavely sidesteps a baited prosecution witness. The police tell of finding the murder weapon, which was owned by Marvin Fremont! Does the District Attorney have a trick up his sleeve, based on a new law (Chapter 15)? Rodney Banks refuses to testify, but Hamilton Burger grants immunity to get answers (Chapter 16). What he says shocks and surprises everyone! Burger is so upset that Perry tries to calm him down. Then when witnesses are recalled we get a completely surprising ending that definitely clears Perrys client. The final explanatory chapter has a weakness in explaining the placement of a hundred-dollar bill, but is balanced by the trial testimony and cross-examination.
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While I have not finished it yet, I was shocked and depressed to find out how deep the corruption of our federal leaders are. The "swamp" is no longer liquid but seems to be cement. Can Pres. Trump ever move it out?
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This is an amazing story!  If the story was a novel, Id view it as improbable.  No banker in his right mind would stumble through this high level of incompetence in this day and age.
Based on this story presenting in Bank of Crooks and Criminals by Mr. Rossignol the senior officers of the bank in question appears to have blatantly violated the civil rights of an upstanding citizen, and are possible criminally liable for their actions.
While this bank was under strict regulatory supervision and a formal written agreement with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the National Bank Examiners, they willfully make a loan to a high risk industry, it appears a senior official for the bank altered a clients personal financial statement to get the loan approved, possibly sold a portion of this loan to an unsuspecting participating bank, told the borrower who to hire and how to run his business, declared the loan in payment default even though their borrow had not missed a payment, apparently pressured their borrower to sign a lease with the lessee line left blank (later to be filled in with what appeared to be a close friend of the senior bank official), and steamrolled the property into foreclosure despite the borrower having a private party willing to back his loan.  And this unfortunate story continues from on from here.
Mr. Rossignol, thank you for using your years of experience as a newspaperman to uncover an amazing story about a bank stealing a mans business.
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In If you have read any of the previous novels about John Dortmunder, the imaginative planner for many a heist, you know that he lacks only one element to have a perfect life . . . some good luck.  In What's the Worst That Could Happen? Talented crime caper author Donald E. Westlake reveals many ironies about our views on luck.
As the book opens, Dortmunder is offered $500 to pretend he is someone else at a deposition.  He spends a week memorizing his lines, and is ready to go.  Then he friend cancels the whole thing.  So there's no $500 coming.  As usual, such a setback sets Dortmunder in motion to find a new source of "easy" and illegal income.
May, Dortmunder's girl friend, receives a FedEx package, and is puzzled.  Unexpectedly, her uncle, Gideon Gilbert Goodwin has died.  Her sister, June, has decided to send her Uncle Gideon's "lucky ring."  May remembers Uncle Gid as "the one who smelled like horse manure, I think.  He was out at the track all the time."  The ring was not too thrilling.  It was "gold-looking but wasn't gold . . ." and "displayed on its flat surface three thin lines of tiny stones -- chips, really -- . . . that were probably glass."  The top line was discontinuous with a blank in the middle.  May's annoyed because she sees this as a gambit by June to get May to call her.  The ring also doesn't fit her.  She asks John to try it on.  "You could use a little luck."  The ring fits perfectly on the ring finger of his right hand.  "So there you are," she said.  "Your lucky ring."
Immediately, the phone rings and a friend, Gus, offers him the chance to work on a burglary that night.  A billionaire, Max Fairbanks, "is in Chapter Eleven, so the house his corporation owns . . . is under control of the bankruptcy court, so nobody's supposed to go there, so it's empty."
Unfortunately, Max has decided to sneak into the house to entertain Playboy's Miss September, Tracy Kimberly, for one last time before he loses the house.  When Gus and Dortmunder break in, Max lifts his head from Tracy's navel, takes a gun from a bedside drawer, and catches Dortmunder in the act.  When the police come, Max notices that Dortmunder's "lucky" ring has the same symbol on it as his corporation uses.  Max tells the police that the ring belongs to him, and steals it from Dortmunder.
Although the ring has little real value, Dortmunder doesn't want to lose it because it's a gift from May.  After one of the most hilarious escapes from the police that you will ever read about, he sets about recovering the ring.  In a rare reversal of fortune, Dortmunder always succeeds in pulling off each caper . . . reaping lots of loot in the process, but he cannot recapture that "lucky" ring.
The people who are getting lucky are Dortmunder's friends who help him with the capers.  Andy Kelp does best because he even finds a girl friend in the process.
Gradually, Max realizes that it is Dortmunder who is after him, so all the resources that a billionaire in bankruptcy can muster are arrayed against Dortmunder.  The final showdown comes in Las Vegas in a hilarious caper that will remind you of many of the great Hollywood movies about knocking off casinos.
By the time you are done, you'll be wondering who and what are really lucky and about what.
Perhaps Dortmunder should realize that his good luck begins and ends with May.  After all his previous relationship had been an unfortunate marriage to and divorce from a nightclub entertainer named Honeybun Bazoom in San Diego.
The main problem with the book is that Dortmunder is a lot funnier when he's having more problems.  A lot of the tension that creates laughter is lost by having him successfully ripping off Max in New York, Washington and Las Vegas.
After you finish reading this book, think about where you have good luck . . . always!
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Jail is no fun place to be. but you have to give respect to those willing to protect us from the bad guy's being a former jail deputy i can say that this book is dead on the money. the author did a excellent job.
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I had gotten it for my husband and I thought it was gonna be nice but the money clips  with the SF. Very horrible money can fall out easily !
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The Luke Parson's Gang, robbed the bank of Sweetwater, Texas. They killed one of the bank tellers and Sheriff Tyree received a hip wound. They stole forty thousand dollars and three thousand belonged to Jim Travis, a cowboy who worked any kind of job and sometimes took on extra work so he could one day buy a ranch of his own.
Jim Travis parents died when he was five years old. No other relatives, he was raised by town folks, or anyone who would take him on..orphans were usually sent to a state orphanage until they reached age where they could take care of themselves. Travis heard about the bank robbery
after talking with Sheriff Tyree about a posses..which was met with distaste by the town citizens, who refused to help Travis go after the Parson's Gang, and made a mockery of him going after to Luke Parson to get his three thousand dollars back. So Travis went after the gang....
Everyone who reads this western plot which seems to be the norm for living in the west, will read about the determination of one young who won't take no for an answer. Especially from someone whose worked five hard years to save this money by himself..probably doing without creature comforts..that maybe some think nothing of spending money on..Life will either make you or kill you, hard decisions..
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The only thing believable about this is that the state of Louisiana housed a Leper facility along side a prison.  It made me wonder how much of my 2.99 went back to him!!  I think he's still conning people!!!
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I don't believe JP is writing any of the new "co-authoered" books. I'm not even sure he's reading them before they are published with his "money in the bank" name. They are, with rare exception, AWFUL! I've been scammed. A word to the wise is sufficient.
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Kid Parmlee a youngster of 13 kills the creep who killed his dog Farty. So his father gives him 10.00$ and an old swayback horse and tells him to leave Texas.  Kid ends up in Fosterville and is happy until his past arrives. He is asked to join the bounty hunt for 3 guys who had just robbed the local bank. The Kid saw the men as they were leaving the bank with the loot.  Well after the sheriff gives up the chace 'cause he's outta h's territory the Kid continues on. What trouble a guy cud get in young Kid found.  The poor English made it difficult but I caught on.
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Unfortunately, the title of this book never happened. At least that was the conclusion of the New York State Attorney General, Louis Lefkowitz. A write-up of the allegations against Darvas can be found at
[...]

Aside from outright misrepresentation of gains actually made, Darvas excluded his trades that resulted in losses and omitted the fact that much of his investments were made with the proceeds of margin loans.

While it is clear that Darvas did not make $2 million in the stock market, it is entirely possible that he made a comparable sum selling books to benighted people who actually believed that some benevolent individual who discovered the secret to attaining fantastic wealth in the stock market would be happy to share it with the whole world.
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No tension with the money clip. Your cash doesn't stay in. I would suggest this unit be removed from the market,  The low price in this case was way too good to be true.
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Well my bottom line on reference material was you could get 99% of the info free on YouTube and probably much more than this offered..I think it is a scam item over all.  I tried looking up some simple thing like..where 'wood' locations could be found...Notta - Nothing listed or referenced there / Just an example.  The price was Maffia extortion rate.  Would have thought Donald Drumpf wrote the financial script here.
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What a joke.  Who is this guy to write about civil duty?  He has scammed people around the world for 50K Euros through Bitcoin scams.  This is his profile on the peer to peer Bitcoin lending site BTCJAM.com.  You can see that he ran a ponzi scheme for a year or so, until it collapsed.  https://btcjam.com/users/10628
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The Case of the Fenced-In Woman

Morley Eden visits Perry Mason about his problem. A beautiful woman has run a barbed wire fence through the middle of his house! Morley Eden paid a contractor to build a house on a lot, but half the lot belonged to his wife, and now she has claimed her share. Chapter One explains how this happened. Perry visits Judge Goodwin to learn about his decision in this case. The Judge hopes to use this conflict against the contractor Loring Carson. Perry Mason visits Nadine Palmer to tell her about Morley Eden's suit against Loring Carson. Nadine was wrongly accused in Loring's divorce suit, and she will get unwanted publicity (Chapter Five). When the press conference is held inside Morley Eden's part of the house they find the dead body of Loring Carson. The reporters cluster around the body like sharks in a feeding frenzy.

Perry calls the police, then Paul Drake so he can trace Nadine Palmer. Vivian Carson arrives home and is shocked to hear of the murder on the other side of the house. Perry questions Morley about his whereabouts. Lt. Tragg questions Vivian about her activities, then searches around the house and pool. Perry catches a plane to Las Vegas to talk to the woman who knew Loring Carson. Genevieve explains the policies of gambling (Chapter Ten). [Good advice for everyone!] Perry finds Nadine and talks to her until someone official shows up.

In Chapter Eleven Perry finds a briefcase planted in his hotel room, and tries to neutralize it, then returns to the gambling tables. Perry finds that Genevieve just got back from Los Angeles. Then the police arrive to question Perry about a trip. The police don't believe his answers and advise him to leave. So Perry returns to Los Angeles. "The best defense to circumstantial evidence ... is the truth" (Chapter Twelve). Morley and Vivian will be charged with the murder of Loring.

The newspapers report on this case of sex, mystery, drama, missing money, and an unusual setting. The high point is when Nadine testifies to what she saw at Morley Eden's house on the day of the murder (Chapter Thirteen). The cross-examination of Nadine begins in Chapter Fifteen. Perry asks a question that results in Nadine's fingerprints being taken. Perry calls Lt. Tragg to testify about the briefcase found in Perry's room and the unknown fingerprints on it. In his closing argument Perry uses the facts to arrive at a different explanation from the prosecution's theory. Finding fingerprints of a person will not tell you when they were made. Perry asks the jury to compare the sets of fingerprints and decide for themselves. The jury returned with a not guilty verdict. Chapter Sixteen provides a conclusion to this mystery.

This story was published after Erle Stanley Gardner's death. Like other stories, it implicitly critiques the morals and lifestyles of middle-class entrepreneurs.
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Where Billy Died, story opening: "It was June, 2001, and I'd been working as a skip tracer in Philadelphia for about a year when I leaned across the desk and said, `I don't want to go to Texas.'"

Jack's wife Beverly, owner of the Liberty Bail Bonding Agency, sends him anyway. She's tired of looking at him and they need the money. Resolved to stay out of trouble Jack heads to Hico, Texas to look for Billy Joe Raynor, a clean cut lad who took part in a bungled robbery and jumped bail.

At a diner in Hico, Jack meets Ollie, a rumpled old man who claims to have known Billy the Kid and offers to show him Hico's tourist attractions. Leaving the diner Jack realizes he's been tailed by a brute named Turk, an enforcer for Sal Marino, a mob boss who has bad history with Jack. Here's Jack's idea of staying out of trouble:

(Quote)
When I was directly opposite Turk's Honda, I threaded my way through the trees, crouched, and crossed a patch of grass to its rear end. Then I eased around to the driver's side, held the two-by-four behind me in my right hand and tapped on the window with my left. When Turk turned his head and recognized me, I said, "Hello, you stupid pile of puke." He jerked the door open, but before he could get out, I whipped the two-by-four around and whacked him on his bald head.
(End Quote)

Turk gets the upper hand and is on the verge of killing Jack when Ollie picks up the two-by-four and knocks Turk out cold.

Shortly after, at Ollie's spiffy cabin in the wilds outside Hico, Jack hears yet another version of Billy the Kid's legend. Billy Joe Raynor makes his appearance, Turk shows up, and the ending is a pip.